Labour have selected the bulk of their candidates for the next election but the Tories are still a while way away from that yet. Below is a list of all the MPs from the two main parties who have said they will quit their current seat at the next election.
Conservative MPs (78):
- Mike Penning, elected 2005, Hemel Hempstead, aged 65: ‘After careful discussions with my wife Angie and daughters Adele and Abby, I have decided to retire from frontline politics at the next election.’
- Sajid Javid, elected 2010, Bromsgrove, aged 52: It was ‘a decision I have wrestled with for some time’.
- Charles Walker, elected 2005, Broxbourne, aged 55: ‘I haven’t the stomach for it.’
- Dehenna Davison, elected 2019, Bishop Auckland, aged 29: ‘I haven’t had anything like a normal life for a twentysomething.’
- Gary Streeter, elected 1992, South West Devon, aged 62: ‘The time has come for me to step back and let a younger person take over.
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