Scott Morrison will resign from politics less than two years after being voted out as prime minister
Scott Morrison will resign from politics less than two years after being voted out as prime minister.
Morrison, 55, is expected to make the shock announcement when parliament resumes in February.
The dastardly MP, who served as Prime Minister from August 24, 2018 to May 30, 2022, reportedly told his colleagues that he will announce his resignation within weeks.
He was elected to federal parliament in Sydney's southern seat of Cook in 2007, when the Liberal-National Coalition lost badly to Labor under Kevin Rudd.
Mr Morrison is also expected to announce his plans for where he will work after politics, and is said to be interested in working in the defense industry.
Scott Morrison will resign from politics less than two years after being voted out as prime minister
Next, Prime Minister Scott Morrison (second from right) is pictured in Hawaii during a controversial vacation he took during a bushfire crisis
He has already written a biography aimed at the Christian market, which will be published later this year.
Plans for Your Wellbeing – A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness will be published by Thomas Nelson, the Christian publisher of Harper Collins.
Former US Vice President Mike Pence, who like Morrison is a prominent Christian, wrote the foreword.
The 288-page book is said to be “less political memoir and more pastoral encouragement.”
“It was written with a broader audience in mind,” Morrison said last September.
“It wasn't written to be available only in bookstores in Canberra. Especially in the US, but also abroad.'
When the Coalition returned to power in 2013 after two terms in the Labor government, Mr Morrison was appointed Immigration Minister.
In that role he was responsible for Operation Sovereign Borders, overseeing the return of asylum seeker boats and reintroducing temporary protection visas that had been scrapped under Labour.
After being widely seen as an effective minister, he was promoted to the Social Services portfolio in late 2014 and then to Treasurer in 2015.
In August 2018, Peter Dutton failed to oust then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in an internal Liberal Party challenge, but came so close that Mr Turnbull stepped aside.
In the second leadership vote that followed, Mr Morrison defeated both Mr Dutton and Julie Bishop to become party leader and prime minister.
Nine months later he led the Coalition to victory over Bill Shorten's Labor, winning two seats while the opposition lost one.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Mr Morrison for comment.
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