Trade minister Baroness Fairhead and Lords whip Baroness Manzoor have left the Government for "personal reasons", Downing Street has announced.
Baroness Fairhead CBE has left her post as the Minister of State for Trade and Export Promotion at the Department for International Trade (DIT).
While Baroness Manzoor has stood down as a Government whip in the House of Lords.
A Downing Street spokesperson said: “Baroness Fairhead and Baroness Manzoor have resigned from the Government for personal reasons.
“The Prime Minister thanks them both for their service in their roles at the Department for International Trade and the Whips’ Office respectively.
“Their replacements will be announced in due course.”
The pair were the two government ministers in the Lords on the Trade Bill.
Baroness Manzoor is a former Liberal Democrat who joined the Conservative Party in 2016.
While Baroness Fairhead is a former businesswoman whose previous experience includes serving as chairman of the BBC Trust from 2014 to 2017.
Prior to this, she was chairman and CEO of the Financial Times Group from 2006 to 2013.
