The Labour MP, who replaced Lucy Powell after she resigned at the beginning of the week, said on Twitter this morning, ‘It is with a heavy heart that I have today resigned as Shadow SoS Education.’
Yesterday she announced she would stand down from the post at a General Election, but her departure was hastened.
Ms Glass tweeted, ‘My dream job but the situation is untenable.’
Amid a time of post Brexit political uncertainty, the early years sector had on Monday welcomed the news of her appointment, because of her long career in education.
On the same day, Jenny Chapman MP, who replaced Ms Glass as shadow childcare minister when she became Europe minister in January this year, also resigned from the Labour front bench on the same day.
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