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Why Tories are taking early retirement

3 December 2022

9:00 AM

3 December 2022

9:00 AM

Conservative party strategists face nervous days ahead as they wait to see how many Tory MPs will announce they are standing down at the next election. The last two general elections – 2017 and 2019 – were called unexpectedly in the middle of parliament, meaning MPs had next to no time to decide whether or not they were going to stand.

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