The MPs who have said they are standing down in the 2024 General Election

William Morgan
·4-min read
A number of MPs have not spoken a word in debates so far this year, new figures have shown
Over 100 MPs are throwing in the towel at this year's General Election -Credit:PA


Travel plans are being altered, ministerial meetings in Westminster are being cancelled, as Rishi Sunak has now finally called the much-anticipated General Election for July 4 - and with more than 100 MPs throwing in the towel at this election, including a former Prime Minister, the next parliament will look very different.

In an early sign that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was going to call the election today, one senior Conservative standing down at the next election was seen hugging colleagues and saying goodbye, according to BBC Political Editor Chris Mason. Of the MPs not standing or re-election, the vast majority are from the Conservative Party, which is currently behind in the polls by double digits.

Following a politically difficult five years with three Tory Prime Ministers and the world lurching from war to disaster, it should come as little surprise that many MPs are looking forward to a life outside of Westminster - including prominent politicians like Theresa May, and scores of former frontbench ministers like Sajid Javid and Matt Hancock.

READ MORE: Every UK household told to store tinned food and bottled water for 'emergency'

Some of the House of Commons' longest-serving MPs will be stepping back after decades of public service at this year's General Election, with well-known names like Harriet Harman Dame Margaret Hodge, Bill Cash, and Caroline Lucas passing the baton to the next generation of MPs.

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas raised her concerns about the changes with the DWP
The first Green Party MP, Caroline Lucas, is stepping down -Credit:Getty

65 of the MPs resigning their seat at the election are Conservative, 19 are Labour, nine are from the SNP, two are from Sinn Fein, one from the Greens, one from Plaid Cymru, and seven are currently standing as independents.

Below is a list of every MP that will not be standing in the next election:

  1. Jon Cruddas (LAB) - Dagenham and Rainham

  2. Dame Margaret Beckett (LAB) - Derby South

  3. Ben Bradshaw (LAB) - Exeter

  4. Barry Sheerman (LAB) - Huddersfield

  5. Dame Margaret Hodge (LAB) - Barking

  6. Harriet Harman (LAB) Camberwell and Peckham

  7. Colleen Fletcher (LAB) - Coventry North East

  8. Sir George Howarth (LAB) - Knowsley

  9. Wayne David (LAB) - Caerphilly

  10. Alan Whitehead (LAB) - Southampton Test

  11. Paul Blomfield (LAB) - Sheffield Central

  12. Ian Mearns (LAB) - Gateshead

  13. Alex Cunningham (LAB) - Stockton North

  14. Dame Rosie Winterton (LAB) - Doncaster Central

  15. Natalie Elphicke (LAB) - Dover

  16. Karen Buck (LAB) - Westminster North

  17. Margaret Greenwood (LAB) - Wirral West

  18. Christina Rees (LAB) - Neath

  19. Caroline Lucas (GRN) - Brighton Pavillion

  20. Hywel Williams (PLAID CYMRU) - Arfon

  21. Dehenna Davison (CON) - Bishop Auckland

  22. Tracey Crouch (CON) - Chatham and Aylesford

  23. Pauline Latham (CON) - Mid Derbyshire

  24. Gordon Henderson (CON) - Sittingbourne and Sheppey

  25. Craig Whittaker (CON) - Calder Valley

  26. John Howell (CON) - Henley

  27. Matthew Offord (CON) - Hendon

  28. Sir Mike Penning (CON) - Hemel Hempstead

  29. Adam Afriyie (CON) - Windsor

  30. Andrew Percy (CON) - Brigg and Goole

  31. Mark Pawsey (CON) - Rugby

  32. Edward Timpson (CON) - Eddisbury

  33. Jo Gideon (CON) - Stoke-on-Trent Central

  34. Sir Paul Beresford (CON) - Mole Valley

  35. Sir Bill Cash (CON) - Stone

  36. Steve Brine (CON) - Winchester

  37. Robin Walker (CON) - Worcester

  38. Sir Charles Walker (CON) - Broxbourne

  39. Douglas Ross (CON) - Moray

  40. Chloe Smith (CON) - Norwich North

  41. William Wragg (CON) - Hazel Grove

  42. Sir Graham Brady (CON) - Altrincham

  43. George Eustice (CON) - Camborne and Redruth

  44. Adam Afriyie (CON) - Windsor

  45. Matt Hancock (IND fmr CON) - West Suffolk

  46. Sajid Javid (CON) - Bromsgrove

  47. Dominic Raab (CON) - Esher and Walton

  48. Ben Wallace (CON) - Wyre and Preson

  49. Alok Sharma (CON) - Reading West

  50. Chris Grayling (CON) - Epsom and Ewell

  51. Mike Freer (CON) - Finchley and Golders Green

  52. Kwasi Kwarten (CON) - Spelthorne

  53. Theresa May (CON) - Maidenhead

  54. James Heappey (CON) - Wells

  55. Robert Halfon (CON) - Harlow

  56. Nadhim Zahawi (CON) - Stratford-on-Avon

  57. Brandon Lewis (CON) - Great Yarmouth

  58. Stephen McPartland (CON) - Stevenage

  59. Nicola Richards (CON) - West Bromwich East

  60. Henry Smith (CON) - Crawley

  61. Chris Heaton-Harris (CON) - Daventry

  62. Sir Robert Goodwill (CON) - Scarborough & Whitby

  63. Sir Gary Streeter (CON) - South West Devon

  64. Oliver Heald (CON) - North East Hertfordshire

  65. Sir James Duddridge (CON) - Rochford and Southend East

  66. Bob Stewart (IND, former CON) - Beckenham

  67. Nick Gibb (CON) - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton

  68. John Baron (CON) - Basildon and Billericay

  69. Jamie Wallis (CON) - Bridgend

  70. Lisa Cameron (CON) - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow

  71. Bob Neill (CON) - Bromley and Chiselhurst

  72. Nickie Aiken (CON) - Cities of London and Westminster

  73. Lucy Allan (CON) - Telford

  74. Stuart Andrew (CON) - Pudsey

  75. Richard Bacon (CON) - South Suffolk

  76. Chris Clarkson (CON) - Heywood and Middleton

  77. Andy Carter (CON) - Warrington South

  78. Jonathan Djanogly (CON) - Huntingdon

  79. Phillip Dunne (CON) - Ludlow

  80. Stephen Hammond (CON) - Wimbledon

  81. Trudy Harrison (CON) - Copeland

  82. Alister Jack (CON) - Dumfries and Galloway

  83. David Jones (CON) - Clwyd West

  84. Greg Knight (CON) - East Yorkshire

  85. Kieran Mullan (CON) - Crewe and Nantwich

  86. Will Quince (CON) - Colchester

  87. Paul Scully (CON) - Sutton and Cheam

  88. Royston Smith (CON) - Southampton Itchen

  89. Mhairi Black (SNP) - Paisley and Renfrewshire South

  90. Douglas Chapman (SNP) - Denfermline and West Fife

  91. Angela Crawley (SNP) - Lanark & Hamilton East

  92. Patrick Grady (SNP) - Glasgow North

  93. Peter Grant (SNP) - Glenrothes & Central Fife

  94. Stewart Hosie (SNP) - Dundee East

  95. John McNally (SNP) - Falkirk

  96. Phillipa Whitford (SNP) - Central Ayrshire

  97. Ian Blackford (SNP) - Ross, Skye, and Lochaber

  98. Mickey Brady (Sinn Fein) - Newry and Armagh

  99. Francie Molloy (Sinn Fein) - Mid Ulster

  100. Nick Brown (IND, former LAB) - Newcastle upon Tyne East

  101. Conor McGinn (IND, former LAB) - St Helens North

  102. Julian Knight (IND, former CON) - Solihull

  103. Crispin Blunt (IND, former CON) - Reigate

  104. Mark Menzies (IND) - Fylde

  • Up next
  • Up next
  • Up next
  • Up next

Latest stories

  • Labour council ‘unfairly’ fined thousands of drivers £2.6m

    A Labour council which “unfairly” fined thousands of motorists millions of pounds is being urged to issue refunds after a mistake in the wording on its penalty charge notices (PCNs) meant they were “legally void”.

  • Britain still doesn’t have a clue about the scale of the disaster heading its way

    Reform overtaking the Tories according to one poll is undoubtedly a watershed moment in British politics. But Nigel Farage’s suggestion that “a vote for the Conservatives is now a vote for Labour” isn’t quite right. Because Reform simply doesn’t have the numbers to replace the Tories; only to destroy them, with no clear idea of what would follow. When the red mist clears, what we’re going to be left with is a future far worse than even the wettest of Conservatives could muster.

  • Wes Streeting warns of ‘nightmare in Downing Street’

    Wes Streeting has warned of a ‘nightmare in Downing Street’, echoing The Sun’s headlines in the run-up to the general election in 2019.

  • Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks on guns

    The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a federal ban on bump stocks approved by former President Donald Trump, the high court’s latest stroke limiting the power of federal agencies to act on their own.

  • How India’s caste discrimination was Narendra Modi’s undoing

    From her archive, Christiane Amanpour’s report on the deplorable treatment of India’s underclass, and the origins of a political movement that delivered India’s shock election results.

  • Tory leadership hopefuls ‘already lobbying’ to replace Sunak

    Sources say contenders jostling for support amid fears of historic wipeout in election

  • Supreme Court’s abortion pill ruling puts new focus on conservative Trump judge in Texas

    The Supreme Court’s decision this week rebuffing an effort to restrict access to mifepristone is unlikely to be the final word on the abortion pill.

  • How Emmanuel Macron lobbed a grenade at the hard-Right and blew up French politics

    It is a picture that will go down in the annals of French political history.

  • Johnson vows to take Garland contempt case to court after DOJ snub

    Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that the House will take their contempt of Congress case against Attorney General Merrick Garland’s to court, after the Justice Department (DOJ) refused to pursue charges. “It is sadly predictable that the Biden administration’s Justice Department will not prosecute Garland for defying congressional subpoenas even though the department aggressively prosecuted…

  • Labour has no excuse for banning trail hunting

    Twenty years ago, when the Hunting Act was passed, most of us thought that hunting as we knew it would end. That was wrong. Hunts changed, adapting to trail hunting and exempt hunting. The former involves laying a scent – a trail – for hounds to follow, but with no killing of live quarry. Today, hunting is still flourishing and is as popular as ever.

  • ‘This could end up ugly’: after Macron’s gamble, will the far right seize power in France?

    Marine Le Pen’s party is breaking record high scores across vast areas of the country, polls show, with an increase in its influence inevitable

  • Reform UK manifesto: Nigel Farage’s key policies at a glance

    Reform UK will release its “contract with the people” in full on June 17, Nigel Farage has announced as he set out more of the party’s economic pledges to repair the “skint” UK.

  • Ex-president Hollande surprise candidate in French election

    Former French Socialist president Francois Hollande on Saturday said he is to stand again for parliament in legislative elections -- a political comeback that took even his allies on the left by surprise.Hollande is not the first president to run for legislative elections after leaving the Elysee Palace.

  • Policeman shoots, injures magistrate in Kenya court

    STORY: A police officer shot and injured a magistrate at a court in Kenya's capital Nairobi on Thursday (June 13), before being killed in a shootout with other officers.That’s according to the judiciary.The chief registrar said in a statement that Monica Kivuti, a magistrate at the Makadara Law Courts, was shot after rejecting a bond request for the police officer's wife.A statement from the chief justice Martha Koome said Kivuti and three other officers were injured in the ensuing shootout. Koome said "it is clear that the intention of the perpetrator was to kill the magistrate," ordering security at all courts across the country to be reinforced.Nairobi Police Chief Commander Adamson Bungei:"Our officers who were within the court, were able to act swiftly and we managed to neutralize the situation and now we can say that our magistrate and the officers are stable."A police report seen by Reuters stated that the policeman's wife had requested release on bail after pleading guilty to obtaining almost $23,000 by false pretenses.

  • Justice Department Says It Won't Prosecute Merrick Garland For Contempt Of Congress

    The U.S. attorney general didn't break a law by defying a Republican subpoena for an audio recording of President Joe Biden, the department said.

  • Ukraine-sceptic Pellegrini sworn in as Slovak president

    Peter Pellegrini, an ally of Ukraine-sceptic Prime Minister Robert Fico, was sworn in as Slovakia's new president on Saturday, pledging to unite the politically polarised central European country.The new president, himself a former prime minister, was elected in April with 53 percent of the vote.

  • Tories heading for 'warfare', Farage predicts, as ex-Cabinet minister pleads with voters to 'unite the right'

    Nigel Farage has predicted the Tories will soon descend into "warfare" as a former Conservative minister warned voters about a "Labour elective dictatorship" if they voted for Reform. The Reform UK leader told The Sunday Telegraph that divisions in the party were only going to "get worse" in the run-up to polling day on 4 July. Mr Farage was speaking as three polls this week painted a bleak picture for Mr Sunak - and a sunny one for his party.

  • Sunak seeks support for Ukraine as Starmer and Streeting probed on NHS funding

    Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey will trail his party’s police and crime policies.

  • Spanish prosecutors defy order to apply amnesty to Catalonia's ex-leader

    Spanish prosecutors handling a case against Catalan separatist leaders have defied an order to apply an amnesty law to defendants charged with embezzlement. The legislation, which the minority government of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pushed through in return for support in parliament from the separatists, is set to wipe clean the criminal records of almost 500 officials and activists involved in Catalonia's pro-independence push since 2011. Spain's government depends on the support of Junts and several regional groups to pass legislation, and the future of that support is not certain.

  • General election: Voters annoyed at government's broken promises, admits minister

    People are "really annoyed" the government has not always kept its promises, a Tory minister has said as he acknowledged the election was "tough" after 14 years in power. Speaking to Sky News Johnny Mercer admitted the campaign had been "up and down", but insisted the polls showing the party lagging behind were not reflected on the doorstep. It comes after a survey by YouGov for The Times put Reform UK at 19%, compared to the Conservatives at 18%.