Brendon Grylls has confirmed he will step down from the WA National party leadership. Source: AAP
THE National Party in WA is looking for a new leader, and Premier Colin Barnett is searching for another minister, after Brendon Grylls quit as head of the party and from cabinet.
Mr Grylls is believed to have chosen family over the forefront of state politics, eight months after winning the biggest gamble of his career by successfully switching from a safe Wheatbelt seat.
The 40-year-old won in the Pilbara with more than 60 per cent of the two-party preferred vote.
But the stresses of leadership and ministerial responsibilities are understood to have convinced Mr Grylls to move to the backbench.
As the 2008 kingmaker of the Barnett government bows out, likely successor Terry Redman would not speculate on whether he would take over.
"The National Party is going through a transition of leadership at the moment, and what that triggers is a whole load of processes. But I am not going to speculate on what might fall out of that process."
Mr Grylls said in a statement on Sunday he wanted to "confirm his intention to step down from the National Party leadership and the ministry in the coming weeks."
He will also quit as WA's minister for regional development.
The party said Mr Grylls would on Monday make public his reasons for quitting.
Mr Grylls has three young children, and had previously admitted he almost retired from politics earlier because of the pressure of the spotlight.
Never was that felt more than in 2008, when Mr Grylls was cast in the role of kingmaker as the WA electorate failed to split Labor and Liberals.
The Nationals' Royalties for Regions plan - which demanded 25 per cent of mineral royalty payments be set aside for regional areas - was Mr Grylls' trump card.
And while both Mr Barnett and rival Alan Carpenter agreed to the deal, the Nationals sided with the Liberals, and Mr Grylls became the state's minister for regional development.
In the most recent financial year, the Royalties for Regions fund reached $1.12 billion, allocated across the state into schemes including hospital upgrades, restoration of sports clubs and parks, affordable housing and the Ord River expansion project.
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