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Norman Baker resigns as Home Office minister

Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker has resigned his role as a Home Office minister, saying working with Home Secretary Theresa May had been like "walking through mud". Lynne Featherstone has been named as his replacement.

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Baker 'tried to act as if he was same rank as Theresa May'

Former Tory former Damian Green has accused Norman Baker of trying to act as if he had the same ministerial rank as Home Secretary Theresa May.

The ex-Home Office minister told BBC's Radio 4 Today programme: "Norman's problem was he came in ... he gave an interview to his local paper saying 'I'm the Lib Dem home secretary'.

"He regarded himself as being on a par with the Home Secretary and asked for papers from other ministers, he wanted to check what everyone else was doing.

"The world doesn't work like that. If you are a minister of state, in the end you work for the Secretary of State in that department."

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