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But in a major embarrassment for the Treasury minister - who is supposed to be good with numbers - presenter Anna Jones had to tell him that the true figure is only one-third of what he said.Jones told the minister: “I think that makes it close to 60 Tory MPs, that’s around a sixth of the party, choosing to stand down at the next election. It sounds like there are a lot of Tory MPs that have made their minds up about the party’s prospects at the next election.
Davies replied: “I think there’s nearly 50 Labour MPs as well, just to be completely balanced about this. “This is what happens when you approach a new election and completely reasonable for people to decide that it’s time to go, particularly when they’ve been in the House of Commons for a long time and each one has made their own decision for personal reasons.”But later in the interview, Jones said: “I’m just going to pick you up on something you said earlier.
“The number of Labour MPs standing down at the next election is more like 17 rather than closer to 50.”Anna Jones: That makes it close to 60 Tory MPs standing down at the next election..Anna Jones: I'm being told that the number of Labour MPs standing down at the next election is more like 17.Sign up and we will email you daily with the best of our political and news coverage while also giving you a taste of our most-popular lifestyle, opinion and personal blogs.
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