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Sport will have a new face in government after Downing Street announced that Hugh Robertson, who was both Olympics and sports minister, is to move to the Foreign Office.
Helen Grant, the Conservative MP for Maidstone & the Weald, will succeed Robertson as sports minister. She had been the justice and equalities minister and it appears she will keep responsibility for equalities as well as taking on sport.
Robertson had been at the heart of British sport for more than a decade, first as the shadow sports minister and then taking on the position of Olympics and sports minister himself after the coalition government was formed in May 2010.
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