Damian Hinds, the Conservative MP for East Hampshire, has stepped down from the shadow cabinet.
Mr Hinds served as shadow education secretary in the interim period from the general election in July until Kemi Badenoch was selected as the new Tory leader on Saturday.
He has been replaced in his shadow cabinet role by Laura Trott, MP for Sevenoaks.
Mr Hinds said: "It has been a great privilege to lead the shadow education team for this time.
“I know my successor will continue to hold the Government to account, striving to ensure that the enormous progress made by brilliant teachers between 2010 and 2024, as seen in the international comparisons of attainment, is built upon to the benefit of all children.”
Mr Hinds said he would “retain a strong interest in education, as I have throughout my time in Parliament”, focussing on issues including “early years education to the school curriculum review to the government’s plans for a new Skills England body”.
“But I am also looking forward to covering wider subject areas,” he added. “And most of all, as ever, my number one priority is representing the interests of the people of East Hampshire.”
Under the previous Conservative government, Mr Hinds served as minister of state at the Ministry of Justice and then minister of state for schools at the Department for Education.