The Housing Secretary and the former leader of the House of Commons join a growing list of Tory MPs stepping down ahead of July 4 General Election
and Andrea Leadsom have become the latest high-profile Tory MPs to announce they are standing down ahead of the July 4 election.
“We are volunteers who willingly choose our fate. And the chance to serve is wonderful. But there comes a moment when you know that it is time to leave. That a new generation should lead.” In a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak posted on X, Ms Leadsom, a former Commons leader, said she had come to the decision after “careful reflection”.
Parliament has been officially prorogued ahead of dissolution on May 30 and the General Election on July 4. In his nearly 20 years as an MP, Mr Gove, a former journalist, made numerous comebacks to frontline politics. He first entered Lord Cameron’s Cabinet as education secretary before siding against him and with Mr Johnson on the Vote Leave campaign during the 2016 referendum.
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