Belgian deputy PM quits as husband ill

Updated July 15 2022 - 3:41am, first published 3:39am
Belgium's deputy PM Sophie Wilmes and her spouse Christoper Stone were in London in 2019.
Belgium's deputy PM Sophie Wilmes and her spouse Christoper Stone were in London in 2019.

Belgian Foreign Minister and deputy prime minister Sophie Wilmes has resigned, the cabinet says, to take care of her husband, former St Kilda Australian Rules footballer Chris Stone, who has been diagnosed with brain cancer.

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