Comments on: Retiring MPs

By: Barnaby Marder

Barnaby Marder — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:15:33 +0000

Pete is correct & it’s interesting to note that, because of changes to his then S. Gloucs constituency, when Dr King moved to Itchen the defeated Labour candidate for Test was Tony Crosland.

By: John Chanin

John Chanin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:45:46 +0000

Anthony isn’t going to pay any attention to this constituency section until the new boundaries are in.

He’s only left it active to keep a few saddos like us happy.

By: Pete Whitehead

Pete Whitehead — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:34:57 +0000

Two previous Labour MPs for Southampton Test have subsequently moved to Itchen. Horace King represented Test from 1950 to 1955 then switched to Itchen. His successor in Itchen in 1971 when he retired as Speaker was Richard Mitchell who had represented Test from 1966 to 1970

By: Dalek

Dalek — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:18:44 +0000

The retirement of John Denham would provide a notional Labour seat for Alan Whitehead. The new Southamton Itchen will include parts of his current Southampton Test. The new Southampton Test will have a notional Conservative majority of 5000+, so given this and that much of his Test will be in the new Itchen, he could not be accused of chicken running.

The boundary changes will also cause a number of MPs to retire.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:03:27 +0000

Correcting myself, I think Red Dawn is the 4th MP to announce retirement: Arbuthnot, Jackson, Denham and Primarolo.

By: Joseph Brayson

Joseph Brayson — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:01:53 +0000

It would be useful if Anthony could please update this section to provide a rolling update on whose retiring.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:23:37 +0000

Dawn Primarolo (Bristol South) becomes the third MP to officially announce retirement plans for 2015

By: Dalek

Dalek — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:18:23 +0000

I don’t see how Kaufman could possible come through a challenge with another Labour MP due to boundary changes.

By: Joseph Brayson

Joseph Brayson — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:53:49 +0000

I would have thought that some MP’s may retire to stand for the Police & Crime Commissioners election in May 2012. David Blunkett, Alan Johnson perhaps?

By: Lancs Observer

Lancs Observer — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:54:49 +0000

Iain Davidson isn’t that old. It always strikes me as odd that socialists like Meacher, Skinner, Campbell don’t want to give their jobs to younger men. If MPs retired at 65, how many would that be? 70 is the limit for jury service but not for the Justice Secretary.