Nadhim Zahawi, a former chancellor under Boris Johnson, has become the latest Conservative MP to announce he will not be standing again at the general election.
Having first been elected in 2010, Zahawi said on Thursday he “had come to feel that the time is right for a new, energetic Conservative to represent Stratford-upon-Avon”.
Zahawi, who was sacked last year by Rishi Sunak as Conservative party chair after he was found to have breached the ministerial code by failing to declare the HMRC investigation into his tax affairs, added: “My mistakes have been mine and my successes have come from working with amazing people.”
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