Ex-sports Minister Caborn Quits As Mp

Former sports minister Richard Caborn has announced that he will step down as an
MP at the next election to concentrate on his new role as ambassador for
England’s 2018 World Cup bid.

The 63-year old Sheffield Central MP said the time had come to make way for a
younger candidate.

He said: ‘It has been a great privilege to serve the constituency where I was
born, educated and worked all my life. I need to make way for some younger
blood.

‘This will have no effect on my position as Gordon Brown’s ambassador for the
2018 World Cup.’

Caborn was elected as an MEP in 1979, and then as an MP in 1983.

After Labour’s 1997 election landslide, he was appointed environment
minister, then moved to the Department of Trade and Industry before taking over
as sports minister in 2001.

He stepped down in July this year, soon after becoming the longest-serving
sports minister in a single stint.
Caborn is likely to move to the House of
Lords after leaving the Commons.