Mapped: All the MPs standing down at the next election

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Conservative justice minister Mike Freer has change into the newest MP to announce that he won’t stand at the next basic election.

Mr Freer, who represents Finchley and Golders Green in north London, mentioned he was stepping again on account of considerations about his security.

He mentioned he had acquired a number of loss of life threats and had a suspected arson assault on his constituency workplace on Christmas Eve final yr.

“There comes a point when the threats to your personal safety become too much,” he mentioned in an interview with the Daily Mail.

Mr Freer joins a rising variety of Conservative MPs deciding to give up politics, together with a number of high-profile ex-cabinet secretaries and different ministers.

Alok Sharma, the former enterprise secretary and Cop26 president, Sajid Javid, the former well being secretary, Dominic Raab, the ex-justice secretary and Ben Wallace, the former defence secretary, are amongst the different big-name Tories who’ve known as it a day as their occasion struggles in the polls.

Mr Sharma and Mr Raab, who resigned from his cupboard place following a slew of bullying allegations which he denied, would have been defending majorities of fewer than 5,000 votes at the next nationwide ballot.

Most MPs strolling away from Westminster are Conservatives, which is unsurprising given they’re the largest occasion, profitable 365 seats at the 2019 election.

According to the Institute for Government, the 2010 election noticed greater than 100 MPs stand down, primarily from the Labour Party, which had been in energy since 1997.

Some MPs additionally introduced they had been standing down after the bills scandal the similar yr.

Of all the 85 MPs standing down forward of the next nationwide ballot – anticipated in the spring or summer time of next yr – 53 are Conservative.

Harriet Harman, the former Labour chief, Margaret Beckett, the former international secretary, and Ben Bradshaw, the former tradition secretary are amongst the 15  Labour MPs standing down.

Nine SNP MPs, six independents – together with former well being secretary Matt Hancock – one Green and one Plaid Cymru have additionally determined to name it a day.