Former PM announces plans to stand at next election
Boris Johnson has advised his neighborhood Conservative Party he’s going to stand once more as an MP at the following wellknown election, the BBC has been advised.
The Conservatives have given their MPs till five December to verify whether or not they desire to contest the following election – which need to be held through early 2025. So far, eleven Tory MPs have introduced they may now no longer stand for re-election.
There have been guidelines Mr. Johnson could stand down from Parliament after he become ousted as top minister. MPs can nevertheless stand down earlier than the following election with out letting the celebration understand beforehand of time.
In October, Mr. Johnson ran to update Liz Truss as top minister and handed the brink of one hundred nominations from his parliamentary colleagues, handiest to withdraw from the race hours earlier than the deadline.
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Mr. Johnson has been the MP for Uxbridge and Ruislip in west London seeing that 2015. He become elected to the seat even as nevertheless serving as mayor of London. The subsequent election could be the fourth time he has run to symbolize the constituency. Mr. Johnson has a 7,210 vote majority after securing a 1.8% swing to the Conservatives on the 2019 election.
On five December, the Boundary Commission will stop its session on new constituency limitations for the following election. Conservative marketing campaign headquarters has requested Tory MPs to verify in the event that they plan to face for re-election earlier than then. Under present day proposals, Mr. Johnson should benefit aid while his constituency is redrawn to take in a few new Tory leaning areas.
Levelling Up minister Dehenna Davison, Chloe Smith, the previous paintings and pensions secretary, and Will Wragg, the chair of the general public management choose committee, have all stated they may stand down. The Uxbridge and South Ruislip Conservative affiliation stated it completely supported Boris Johnson as our neighborhood MP and candidate at any destiny election.
Association chairman Richard Mills added: We stay up for persevering with to paintings along him to supply for the citizens and groups in the constituency, wherein he has sturdy connections and involvement.
