STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's long-serving finance minister Anders Borg said on Monday he would leave politics after the four-party Alliance government lost in a general election at the weekend to the centre-left.
"I am leaving party politics," Borg said.
"I will try and find a job as soon as I can."
Borg's departure is part of a change of guard at the Moderate Party, the biggest in the centre-right Alliance. Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said he would step down as leader of party in the spring after the election defeat.
(Reporting by Daniel Dickson; Editing by Simon Johnson)