Lots of Conservative MPs are leaving parliament at the next election. By choice, that is. It may be that many more will be invited to leave by the electorate but, possibly in a spirit of jumping before being pushed, about 40 have already announced their intention not even to seek re-election.
That’s on top of the ongoing attritional losses from groping, plus all those MPs who quit in sympathy with Boris Johnson: namely Johnson himself, whose sympathy for his own cause knows no bounds, Nigel Adams and Nadine Dorries. Though, at time of writing, Dorries still hasn’t actually resigned despite having resolved to do so “with immediate effect” on 9 June. She has spent a month in a state of imminent resignation and it remains to be seen whether she plans to push that into the next parliament.
