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Here’s the list (so far). List taken from Conservative Home

Douglas Ross – Moray (announced 14/10/21)
Charles Walker – Broxbourne (announced 2/2/22)
Crispin Blunt – Reigate (announced 1/5/2022)
Mike Penning – Hemel Hempstead (announced 17/5/2022)
Adam Afriyie – Windsor (announced 22/7/2022)


Andrew Percy – Brigg and Goole (announced 8/11/2022)
Chloe Smith – Norwich North (announced 22/11/2022)
William Wragg – Hazel Grove (announced 22/11/2022)
Gary Streeter – South West Devon (announced 25/11/2022)
Dehenna Davison – Bishop Auckland (announced 25/11/2022)


Chris Skidmore – Kingswood (announced 26/11/2022)
Sajid Javid – Bromsgrove (announced 2/12/2022)
Mark Pawsey – Rugby (announced 5/12/2022)
Matt Hancock* – West Suffolk (announced 7/12/2022)
George Eustice – Camborne and Redruth (announced 18/1/2023)


Edward Timpson – Eddisbury (announced 1/2/2023)
Jo Gideon – Stoke-on-Trent Central (announced 9/2/2023)
Paul Beresford – Mole Valley (announced 12/2/2023)
Stephen McPartland – Stevenage (announced 13/2/2023)
Robin Walker – Worcester (announced 3/3/2023)


Gordon Henderson – Sittingbourne and Sheppey (announced 17/3/2023)
Graham Brady – Altrincham and Sale West (announced 17/3/2023)
Pauline Latham – Mid Derbyshire (announced 19/3/2023)
Craig Whittaker – Calder Valley (announced 21/3/2023)
Stuart Anderson – Wolverhampton South West (announced 27/3/2023)


Nicola Richards – West Bromwich East (announced 27/3/2023)
Henry Smith – Crawley (announced 31/3/2023)
John Howell – Henley (announced 12/4/2023)
Robert Goodwill – Scarborough (announced 13/4/2023)
Julian Knight – Solihull (announced 21/4/2023)


Jonathan Djanogly – Huntingdon (announced 21/4/2023)
Christopher Pincher – Tamworth (announced 26/4/2023)
Matthew Offord – Hendon (announced 2/5/2023)
Alister Jack – Dumfries and Galloway (announced 17/5/2023)
Richard Bacon – South Norfolk (announced 20/5/2023)


Philip Dunne – Ludlow (announced 22/5/2023)
Dominic Raab – Esher and Walton (announced 22/5/2023)
Andy Carter – Warrington South (announced 30/5/2023)
Will Quince – Colchester (announced 9/6/2023)
Royston Smith – Southampton Itchen (announced 9/6/2023)


Bill Cash – Stone (announced 10/6/2023)
Lucy Allan – Telford (announced 15/6/2023)
Steve Brine – Winchester (announced 23/6/2023)
Chris Clarkson – Heywood and Middleton (announced 28/6/2023)
Ben Wallace – Wyre and Preston North (announced 15/7/2023)


Trudy Harrison – Copeland (announced 24/07/2023)
Stephen Hammond – Wimbledon (announced 14/9/2023)
David Jones – Clwyd West (announced 20/9/2023)
Alok Sharma – Reading West (announced 26/9/23)
Chris Grayling – Epsom and Ewell (announced 06/10/23)


John Baron – Basildon and Billericay (announced 26/10/23)
Nick Gibb – Bognor Regis and Littlehampton (announced 13/11/2023)
Bob Stewart – Beckenham (announced 20/11/2023)
James Duddridge – Rochford and Southend East (announced 20/11/2023)
Oliver Heald – North East Hertfordshire (announced 23/01/2024)


Mike Freer – Finchley and Golders Green (announced 31/01/2024)
Bob Neill – Bromley and Chislehurst (announced 2/02/2024)
Kwasi Kwarteng – Spelthorne (announced 6/02/2024)
Nickie Aiken – Cities of London and Westminster (announced 7/02/2024)
Tracey Crouch – Chatham and Aylesford (announced 12/02/2024)


Kieran Mullan – Crewe and Nantwich (announced 13/02/2024)
Paul Scully – Sutton and Cheam (announced 4/03/2024)

Add James Heappey.

Rose without a trace.

If you take out ‘bloody good riddance’ and ‘never heard of you’ you’re just left with Tracey Crouch.

Youngian wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:06 am If you take out ‘bloody good riddance’ and ‘never heard of you’ you’re just left with Tracey Crouch.

Who I just had to Google...

So many are giving up, Seb Payne might get a seat.

Oboogie wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:57 pm

Youngian wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:06 am If you take out ‘bloody good riddance’ and ‘never heard of you’ you’re just left with Tracey Crouch.

Who I just had to Google...

An outlier like Sayeeda Warsi, comes on TV and says stuff that isn’t stupid or mad.

My assessment is a bit harsh as Alok Sharma and Bob Neil are reasonably thoughtful MPs.

Youngian wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:55 pm

Oboogie wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:57 pm

Youngian wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:06 am If you take out ‘bloody good riddance’ and ‘never heard of you’ you’re just left with Tracey Crouch.

Who I just had to Google...

An outlier like Sayeeda Warsi, comes on TV and says stuff that isn’t stupid or mad.

My assessment is a bit harsh as Alok Sharma and Bob Neil are reasonably thoughtful MPs.

I recognise her face but not her name.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:37 pm So many are giving up, Seb Payne might get a seat.

It’s if he can hold it at this rate.

People underestimate Penny Mourdant, she has the potential to be even worse than her five predecessors.

Interesting to see the MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey giving up (though he's not young).That was held by Labour till 2010, but enormous Tory majority now. I wonder if that majority was very heavily propped up by "Australian style points system Brexit" and also perhaps "Levelling Up", being one of the poorest parts of Kent.

I think this seat could be a lot closer next time- the headbangers (UKIP got 24% in 2015) will have Reform. It's also lost a couple of the more villagey parts to another constituency, so is more urban that it was. But even Rishi ought to hold it.

This Life* fan Braverman recreating Tony Curran in the shower with Ferdi.

* Hip TV show from the 90s.

BBC2’s hit drama series about the lives and loves of a group of twenty something lawyers living in a London.

More similarities between 1992-97 and 2019-24 :

“Rishi Sunak is a decent, honest man” = “John Major is a decent, honest man” *

“The economy has turned a corner” = “There are the green shoots of economic recovery” (Norman Lamont).#

* Caveat here is that I grew tired of pointing out that the terms “honest, decent man” and “leader of the Conservative Party” were mutually exclusive (though in Major’s case, certainly by comparison to Sunak, I may now consider revising that).

# Lamont was talking bollocks, as is Hunt.

Mark Harper hasn’t explained who the Labour Party is pitting me against when I drive in 20 mph zones.

To be perfectly honest; who in their right minds wants to drive through London, especially as it is better served for public transport than other parts of the country.

Hey, that massive coronary is mine by right and nobody's going to keep it from me!

Many are curious as to what the PPCs who replace the many retiring Conservative MPs will be like. Look no further than the skip fire that is Susan Hall.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:13 pm “Rishi Sunak is a decent, honest man” = “John Major is a decent, honest man” *

I’m no fan of Major, but anyone who thinks that he and Sunak are remotely comparable is either deliberately disingenuous or hasn’t paid attention to anything that’s happened since Sunak became PM. I could and pretty much did disagree with all of Major’s policies, but I also didn’t feel he had open contempt for the electorate. With Sunak I do - I genuinely feel he loathes having to deal with ‘the little people’.

If Johnson and Sunak want to add a genuine achievement to their rancid CVs, rehabilitation of the post-thatcher Tories by comparison is quite the feat.

What sort of person has left it this late to decide not to vote Tory again?