I’d heard similar to SBJME19 that he wants to stand again. As Lancs Observer says on the self importance, I’m not sure Tony would feel happy in the Lords.

Just had a thought about David Miliband,
Does anyone know if he is biding his time?

Perhaps we should remember that Blair was parachuted into Parliament by being selected for the safe seat of Sedgefield in the last days before the 1983 General Election. Labour has “previous” for selecting candidates at the last moment to avoid proper scrutiny and debate. We should look carefully for political flaws in any candidates selected by the major parties, any of them, at this point.

Jim McGovern standing down in Dundee West.

91 MPs standing down/not reselected in total now, so above list is rather out of date.
Standing down:
39 Labour
36 Conservative
10 Lib Dem
1 Plaid Cymru
1 Sinn Fein
1 Independent – Eric Joyce
Not reselected:
2 Conservative
1 Lib Dem

I have 88 retirements excluding deselections.

This badly needs updating… I think there is one signalled retirement so far..

Kenneth Clarke is retiring, who else?

Sir Simon Burns (C), Chelmsford

Ronnie Campbell has also been reported, though this was – like Ken Clarke – more him saying during or just after the campaign that it was his last election. I’m not sure that fully counts as an announced retirement.

I wonder how the brexit fall-out might affect this list, not now but in two or three years’ time? Do people think Cameron and Osborne will stand at the next election?

‘Do people think Cameron and Osborne will stand at the next election?’

I very much doubt it

As with most modern PM’s, I would have thought Cameron will step down in 2020 and Osborne will turn his attention to making some serious money and follow suit

I agree, I think that’s a fairly safe bet.

I’d be very surprised if Cameron and Osborne stand again. Their careers as MPs have peaked and there is no way back really. Neither of them are likely to enjoy making awkward speeches from the backbenches like Ted Heath did during his long post-PM career. Cameron will probably do some work to promote the life chances agenda he never really implement, but that won’t necessarily require him to stay as an MP beyond the next election. After a short time out I imagine Osborne will get a big international job – he may even leave the Commons to take one before 2020 to take one. I’d also expect quite a few of the other axed Cameroons to retire. Gove might stay on, though, and I wouldn’t rule out him making a frontbench comeback at some point.

Suppose the problem for Gove is why he was binned. If it’s because May feels he’s untrustworthy, due to knifing Boris, then he may not get another chance short of a change of leader.

That will be two plum seats then, although I believe Tatton was rather messed about with in the zombie review.

Don’t see David Cameron, Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg, George Osborne or Michael Gove standing again.

I think Clegg will depend on whether the Libdems look like making a convincing comeback. Not sure about Gove.

I expect Ed Miliband to stand again.

I think Gove is a bit of a parliamentary purist and, whether or not he gets back on the front bench, will probably enjoy backbench life more than Cameron and Osborne.

Miliband might stand again, but probably not if Labour are still on their current trajectory. I think he’d still quite fancy a senior cabinet job in a future Labour govt. Hague and IDS have set a precedent for failed Leaders of the Opposition to make comebacks.

Callaghan stayed on for 13 years after losing in 1979, maybe Miliband will stay on, but I don’t see it happening

Jim Callaghan stayed on for eight years – two four year terms.

The first was just after he’d been defeated as PM (and he remained as Labour leader for just over a year).

His second term made him Father of the House. He stood down then in 1987, having first been elected in 1945.

Blair and Brown both stood down, Kinnock quit in 1995.
I think Mili will probably stand down.

‘I think Gove is a bit of a parliamentary purist and, whether or not he gets back on the front bench, will probably enjoy backbench life more than Cameron and Osborne.’

I agree

Gove seems to like the parliamentary lifestyle – and no doubt the perks that go with it – and could hansomely supplement his backbench MP’s salary with a couple of directorships and the odd newspaper column

I’d expect him to stay on in 2020

Wikipedia has Oliver Letwin, Pat Glass and Ronnie Campbell standing down.

”I think Mili will probably stand down”’

Ed Miliband is relatively young so I’m pretty sure he’ll be in the next Labour government for a term then stand down as an MP!

‘Ed Miliband is relatively young so I’m pretty sure he’ll be in the next Labour government for a term then stand down as an MP!’

You should have added – ‘due to old age’

I have over a dozen listed as Retiring in 2020.

But it’s only going by what they told the local media rather than a formal letter to the local Assoc or CLP.