The number of U.K. Conservative members of parliament who will not be standing at the next election reached 76 on Friday
British Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove leaves Downing Street in London, on May 22.is facing a mass departure of lawmakers with the number of resignations surpassing the level the Conservative Party suffered before a landslide defeat in the 1997 election., but his party is far behind in the opinion polls after a period of high inflation, low economic growth and a steady stream of political scandals.
Late on Friday, Michael Gove, a veteran Conservative who has held several government roles and was a leading voice in the push for Britain to leave the European Union, said he was also standing down. “There comes a moment when you know that it is time to leave. That a new generation should lead,” he said in a letter.
Only 12 Conservative members of parliament said they would stand down in the run up to 2017 election, while 32 lawmakers stood down before the 2019 election, according to the House of Commons Library. “You often get a lot standing down at election time,” he told Sky News. “You often get this illusion that there are more standing down from the governing side and, of course, the good reason for that is there are, by definition, more MPs on the governing side.”
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