Retiring MPs
Labour:
Tommy McAvoy – Rutherglen and Hamilton West
Hillary Armstrong – Durham North West
John Austin – Erith and Thamesmead
John Battle – Leeds West
Liz Blackman – Erewash
Des Browne – Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Colin Burgon – Elmet and Rothwell
Stephen Byers – North Tyneside
Richard Caborn – Sheffield Central
Colin Challon – Morley & Outwood
Ben Chapman – Wirral South
David Chaytor – Bury North
Michael Clapham – Barnsley West & Penistone (abolished)
David Clelland – Tyne Bridge (abolished)
Harry Cohen – Leyton and Wanstead
Frank Cook – Stockton North
Jim Cousins – Newcastle Central
Ann Cryer – Keighley
John Cummings – Easington
Claire Curtis-Thomas – Sefton Central
Janet Dean – Burton
Jim Devine – Livingston
Jeff Ennis – Barnsley East
Bill Etherington – Sunderland North
Mark Fisher – Stoke on Trent Central
Barbara Follett – Stevenage
Bruce George – Walsall South
Neil Gerrard – Walthamstow
Nigel Griffiths – Edinburgh South
John Grogan – Selby and Ainsty
Mike Hall – Weaver Vale
Sylvia Heal – Halesowen and Rowley Regis
Doug Henderson – Newcastle North
Keith Hill – Streatham
Stephen Hesford – Wirral West
Patricia Hewitt – Leicester West
Geoff Hoon – Ashfield
Kim Howells – Pontypridd
Beverley Hughes – Stretford and Urmston
Joan Humble – Blackpool North and Cleveleys
John Hutton – Barrow and Furness
Brian Iddon – Bolton South-East
Adam Ingram – East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
Lynne Jones – Birmingham Selly Oak
Martyn Jones – Clwyd South
Ruth Kelly – Bolton West
Fraser Kemp – Houghton and Washington East
Jane Kennedy – Liverpool Wavertree
Peter Kilfoyle – Liverpool Walton
Bob Laxton – Derby North
David Lepper – Brighton Pavilion
Tom Levitt – High Peak
Ian McCartney – Makerfield
John McFall – West Dunbartonshire
Rosemary McKenna – Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
Andrew Mackinlay – Thurrock
Bob Marshall Andrews – Medway
Eric Martlew – Carlisle
Christine McCafferty – Calder Valley
Alan Milburn – Darlington
Ann Moffat – East Lothian
Laura Moffatt – Crawley
Margaret Moran – Luton South
Elliot Morley – Scunthorpe
Kali Mountford – Colne Valley
Chris Mullin – Sunderland South
Denis Murphy – Wansbeck
Doug Naysmith – Bristol North West
Bill Olner – Nuneaton
Ian Pearson – Dudley South
Greg Pope – Hyndburn
Bridget Prentice – Lewisham East
John Prescott – Hull East
Ken Purchase – Wolverhampton North East
James Purnell – Stalybridge and Hyde
John Reid – Airdrie and Shotts
Martin Salter – Reading West
Mohammed Sarwar – Glasgow Central
Clare Short* – Birmingham, Ladywood
Sion Simon – Birmingham Erdington
Alan Simpson – Nottingham South
John Smith – Vale of Glamorgan
Helen Southworth – Warrington South
Howard Stoate – Dartford
Gavin Strang – Edinburgh East
Paddy Tipping – Sherwood
Mark Todd – Derbyshire South
Don Touhig – Islwyn
Paul Truswell – Pudsey
Des Turner – Brighton Kemptown
Neil Turner – Wigan
Kitty Ussher – Burnley
Rudi Vis – Finchley and Golders Green
Bob Waring* – Liverpool West Derby
Betty Williams – Aberconwy
Alan Williams – Swansea West
Michael Wills – Swindon North
Tony Wright – Cannock Chase
Derek Wyatt – Sittingbourne and Sheppey
Conservative:
Peter Ainsworth – East Surrey
Michael Ancram – Devizes
Peter Atkinson – Hexham
Tim Boswell – Daventry
Angela Browning – Tiverton and Honiton
John Butterfill – Bournemouth West
Derek Conway*** – Old Bexley and Sidcup
Sir Patrick Cormack – South Staffordshire
David Curry – Skipton and Ripon
Christopher Fraser – Norfolk South West
Paul Goodman – Wycombe
John Greenway – Thirsk and Malton
John Gummer – Suffolk Coastal
Douglas Hogg – Sleaford and North Hykeham
John Horam – Orpington
Michael Howard – Folkestone and Hythe
Michael Jack – Fylde
Robert Key – Salisbury
Julie Kirkbride – Bromsgrove
Jacqui Lait – Beckenham
Michael Lord – Suffolk Central and Ipswich North
Andrew Mackay – Bracknell
David Maclean – Penrith and the border
Humphrey Malins – Woking
John Maples – Stratford on Avon
Michael Mates – Hampshire East
Malcolm Moss – Cambridgeshire North East
Michael Spicer – Worcestershire West
Richard Spring – West Suffolk
Anthony Steen – Totnes
Ian Taylor – Esher and Walton
Peter Viggers – Gosport
Ann Widdecombe – Maidstone and the Weald
David Wilshire – Spelthorne
Ann Winterton – Congleton
Sir Nicholas Winterton – Macclesfield
Liberal Democrat:
John Barrett – Edinburgh West
Colin Breed – South East Cornwall
David Howarth – Cambridge
Paul Keetch – Hereford and South Herefordshire
Mark Oaten – Winchester
Matthew Taylor – Truro and Falmouth
Phil Willis – Harrogate and Knaresborough
Other:
Alex Salmond – Banff and Buchan
Ian Paisley – North Antrim
Adam Price – Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
*Clare Short was elected as a Labour MP but resigned the Labour whip on the 20th October 2006. Bob Waring was elected as a Labour MP, but resigned the Labour whip after being deselected.
***Derek Conway was elected as a Conservative MP but had the whip withdrawn on the 30th January 2008 following revelations that he has been paying a researcher’s salary to his sons from his allowances while they were at university.
****The following sitting MPs do not currently have a seat at the next election, either through boundary changes or through losing selection battles, though they may yet be selected for alternate seats or run as independents: Ian Stewart, Eddie O`Hara, John Greenway, Frank Cook, Quentin Davies,
South Down MP Eddie McGrady retiring.
John Heppell (Nottingham East) because his wife has been diagnosed with breast cancer
I can’t imagine many more retirements save for the kinds of reasons that John Heppell is standing down for.
Well, I expect there may be some late retirements after the election is called on the Labour side (perhaps followed by peerages) so that some central party ‘favoured sons and daughters’ can be imposed.
Robert Waller, with his great experience, is probably right. I do not expect that very many MPs will announce their retirement after the election is called; but do expect that one or two will do so (I have no idea as to which ones).
Blair got the Sedgefield seat after a late retirement in 1983.
There was an article in one of the papers today (forget which one) which suggested around 10 more Labour MPs would quit once the election was called, and it included one with a “safe seat in London”. Joan Ruddock in Lewisham Deptford maybe?
They are cutting it a little bit fine arent they?
It seemed to suggest they were deliberately waiting, I can only assume that they have struck some kind of deal whereby they get a seat in the Lords in return for a parachuted candidate to replace them
That is a little bit sleazy and dirty is it not?
If Labour or any of the other parties were serious about reforming the House of Lords they should suspend the appointment of more members.
Is the MP for Bootle shy and retiring?
I would put money on Stuart Bell standing down – I seem to remember a post on the Middlesbrough thread some time ago that suggested he had already “obtained” a place in the Lords
‘Is the MP for Bootle shy and retiring?’
That would be Joe Benton. Why do you ask that? Is he standing down?
There is speculation that he is, on the Bootle thread.
With the boundary changes, Bootle is likely to fall to the Conservatives.
I would have thought the only constituencies where standing down at this late stage would be looked on favourably would be the ones that are so safe that the horse will still cross the line even with a novice rider. Surely the chances of elevation are smaller if standing down risks the horse falling before the finishing line.
Any declared retirements yet? I wonder if anymore Tories would announce their retirement.
“With the boundary changes, Bootle is likely to fall to the Conservatives.”
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Yes, and Smokey also says that Pontypridd will be close. I think he’s expecting a return to some pre-1922 electoral map with Tories and Liberals winning most of the country’s seats!
That is ridiculous even by Smokey’s standards. And yet he has the temerity to complain when I call him a troll!
Maybe he thought about Sefton Central
In fact that now places Smokey out on his own. The most ridiculous thing than Iain Mackintosh ever did was predict a Labour gain in Chelsea & Fulham. This is, if anything, even more ridiculous still! Well done, Smokey.
Sefton Central should be a Conservative WIN, but will the Lib Dems be in second place?
Barnaby, Are you forgetting that a substantial part of Crosby is now in the new Bootle seat. Why do you think the current MP for Crosby is retiring? She obviously sees the writing on the wall.
I am expecting a major upheaval in the political map of the UK
As they say about flooding, I think we may see a “One in ahundred years” event
“Barnaby, Are you forgetting that a substantial part of Crosby is now in the new Bootle seat. Why do you think the current MP for Crosby is retiring? She obviously sees the writing on the wall.”
If you’re saying that she is standing down because a large part of her electorate has gone into Bootle, then shouldn’t that make Bootle LESS likely to fall?
According to ‘The Times’ there is uproar amongst older Labour MP’s after a ‘senior Labour official’ said that MP’s over 60 ‘are walking by elections’ and advised them to retire now so some of Labour’s favourites can be parachuted into their seats!
Smokey when you’re in a hole you should stop digging. Shaun you are simply right.
I posted on the Bootle thread the notional results in the ex-Crosby wards that are miving into Bootle – off teh top of my head, Labour got 6000, LD 3500, Con 1200
But are those results taken from Local government election, and how many candidates stood .
If it was a multi member ward, those figures may be distorted.
No he got the figures by subtracting the actual result in 2005 from the notional result for the new seat. It’s a reflection of how those wards would have voted in 2005 on General Election day not in a local election.
What is your opinion on the Electoral Calculus assumptions and calculations? By looking at the seat where I live, my opinion is that Electoral Calculus figures are seriously flawed.
If Joe Benton is going to retire, exactly how few days is he going to give his local association to select a replacement? Seems a bit unfair to local members.
Smokey – for once I agree with you, to some extent. Electoral Calculus is rather a blunt instrument and is based at least to some extent on guesswork. Extrapolating results from polls is more likely to be scientific.
The point about late retirements is that they don’t give local members a chance to select, they give central parties an opportunity to impose favoured candidates. That’s why they can be rewarded with a peerage sometimes!
Obviously Bootle is a very safe Labour seat but I’d be interested to know how many members the local Labour party has. (I’m not trying to make a partisan point of any kind; I’m genuinely interested in that sort of question from a neutral standpoint. Stoke-on-Trent Central only had 71 people voting in their selection a few days ago, and that’s a similar kind of seat to Bootle).
Conservative Home says its sources are “99%” sure that there will be no more Tory MPs announcing their retirement.
How late in the day did Nick Lyell and Howard Flight stand down (or forced to stand down, should I say) back in 2005?
Nick Lyell stood down in 2001,Jonathan Sayeed was forced to stand down in 2005, in what was partly Nick lyell seat till 1997.
To be exact:-
Sayeed stated on 14/03/05 he would not be re-standing due to ill-health. On 18/03/05 he had the Tory whip withdrawn.
Flight made his comments 24/03/05. He had the whip withdrawn the following day. He intended to fight against the obvious deselection that would take place after this, but gave up this attempt 06/04/05.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/690030.stm
This report suggests Nicholas Lyell didn’t step down particularly late in the day in 2001 (a year in advance in fact). Maybe you are confusing him with somebody else?
Since we didn’t hear any retirement announcements during the weekend, can we assume no-one will step down now?
Well the deadline for nominations in next Tuesday, so people better get a move on if they wish to retire.
A mad Alice in Wonderland dream …
The Leader debates on TV go so badly for one party (you pick, I daren’t) , so much so that all the candidates for that party throw in the towel … complete walkover for the remainder …
Must stop eating cheese last thing at night.
Well, the deadline has been and gone, I think. Only illness or scandal will add more names to the list above.
True. Or withdrawals or objections to nominations.
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Well, effectively the first retirement of the 2010-15 Parliament is already known
Gordon Brown MP will step down at the next election
Anthony, you need to start the listing process all over again
Tony Blair ought to have stayed on in Sedgefield until last month instead of forcing a by-election, like most (if not all) of his predeceasors as PM.
I’m not sure why Gordon Brown decided not to be Leader of the Opposition until a new Labour leader is chosen. John Major stood in until William Hague took over in 1997 – and made quite a good job of it.