[Abernathy]

Here’s the list (so far). List taken from Conservative Home

Douglas Ross – Moray (announced 14/10/21)
Charles Walker – Broxbourne (announced 2/2/22)
Crispin Blunt – Reigate (announced 1/5/2022)
Mike Penning – Hemel Hempstead (announced 17/5/2022)
Adam Afriyie – Windsor (announced 22/7/2022)


Andrew Percy – Brigg and Goole (announced 8/11/2022)
Chloe Smith – Norwich North (announced 22/11/2022)
William Wragg – Hazel Grove (announced 22/11/2022)
Gary Streeter – South West Devon (announced 25/11/2022)
Dehenna Davison – Bishop Auckland (announced 25/11/2022)


Chris Skidmore – Kingswood (announced 26/11/2022)
Sajid Javid – Bromsgrove (announced 2/12/2022)
Mark Pawsey – Rugby (announced 5/12/2022)
Matt Hancock* – West Suffolk (announced 7/12/2022)
George Eustice – Camborne and Redruth (announced 18/1/2023)


Edward Timpson – Eddisbury (announced 1/2/2023)
Jo Gideon – Stoke-on-Trent Central (announced 9/2/2023)
Paul Beresford – Mole Valley (announced 12/2/2023)
Stephen McPartland – Stevenage (announced 13/2/2023)
Robin Walker – Worcester (announced 3/3/2023)


Gordon Henderson – Sittingbourne and Sheppey (announced 17/3/2023)
Graham Brady – Altrincham and Sale West (announced 17/3/2023)
Pauline Latham – Mid Derbyshire (announced 19/3/2023)
Craig Whittaker – Calder Valley (announced 21/3/2023)
Stuart Anderson – Wolverhampton South West (announced 27/3/2023)


Nicola Richards – West Bromwich East (announced 27/3/2023)
Henry Smith – Crawley (announced 31/3/2023)
John Howell – Henley (announced 12/4/2023)
Robert Goodwill – Scarborough (announced 13/4/2023)
Julian Knight – Solihull (announced 21/4/2023)


Jonathan Djanogly – Huntingdon (announced 21/4/2023)
Christopher Pincher – Tamworth (announced 26/4/2023)
Matthew Offord – Hendon (announced 2/5/2023)
Alister Jack – Dumfries and Galloway (announced 17/5/2023)
Richard Bacon – South Norfolk (announced 20/5/2023)


Philip Dunne – Ludlow (announced 22/5/2023)
Dominic Raab – Esher and Walton (announced 22/5/2023)
Andy Carter – Warrington South (announced 30/5/2023)
Will Quince – Colchester (announced 9/6/2023)
Royston Smith – Southampton Itchen (announced 9/6/2023)


Bill Cash – Stone (announced 10/6/2023)
Lucy Allan – Telford (announced 15/6/2023)
Steve Brine – Winchester (announced 23/6/2023)
Chris Clarkson – Heywood and Middleton (announced 28/6/2023)
Ben Wallace – Wyre and Preston North (announced 15/7/2023)


Trudy Harrison – Copeland (announced 24/07/2023)
Stephen Hammond – Wimbledon (announced 14/9/2023)
David Jones – Clwyd West (announced 20/9/2023)
Alok Sharma – Reading West (announced 26/9/23)
Chris Grayling – Epsom and Ewell (announced 06/10/23)


John Baron – Basildon and Billericay (announced 26/10/23)
Nick Gibb – Bognor Regis and Littlehampton (announced 13/11/2023)
Bob Stewart – Beckenham (announced 20/11/2023)
James Duddridge – Rochford and Southend East (announced 20/11/2023)
Oliver Heald – North East Hertfordshire (announced 23/01/2024)


Mike Freer – Finchley and Golders Green (announced 31/01/2024)
Bob Neill – Bromley and Chislehurst (announced 2/02/2024)
Kwasi Kwarteng – Spelthorne (announced 6/02/2024)
Nickie Aiken – Cities of London and Westminster (announced 7/02/2024)
Tracey Crouch – Chatham and Aylesford (announced 12/02/2024)


Kieran Mullan – Crewe and Nantwich (announced 13/02/2024)
Paul Scully – Sutton and Cheam (announced 4/03/2024)

[Tubby Isaacs]

Add James Heappey.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Rose without a trace.

[Youngian]

If you take out ‘bloody good riddance’ and ‘never heard of you’ you’re just left with Tracey Crouch.

[Oboogie]

If you take out ‘bloody good riddance’ and ‘never heard of you’ you’re just left with Tracey Crouch.

Who I just had to Google...

[Tubby Isaacs]

So many are giving up, Seb Payne might get a seat.

[Youngian]

If you take out ‘bloody good riddance’ and ‘never heard of you’ you’re just left with Tracey Crouch.

Who I just had to Google...

An outlier like Sayeeda Warsi, comes on TV and says stuff that isn’t stupid or mad.

My assessment is a bit harsh as Alok Sharma and Bob Neil are reasonably thoughtful MPs.

[Oboogie]

If you take out ‘bloody good riddance’ and ‘never heard of you’ you’re just left with Tracey Crouch.

Who I just had to Google...

An outlier like Sayeeda Warsi, comes on TV and says stuff that isn’t stupid or mad.

My assessment is a bit harsh as Alok Sharma and Bob Neil are reasonably thoughtful MPs.

I recognise her face but not her name.

[mattomac]

So many are giving up, Seb Payne might get a seat.

It’s if he can hold it at this rate.

[Youngian]

People underestimate Penny Mourdant, she has the potential to be even worse than her five predecessors.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Interesting to see the MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey giving up (though he's not young).That was held by Labour till 2010, but enormous Tory majority now. I wonder if that majority was very heavily propped up by "Australian style points system Brexit" and also perhaps "Levelling Up", being one of the poorest parts of Kent.

I think this seat could be a lot closer next time- the headbangers (UKIP got 24% in 2015) will have Reform. It's also lost a couple of the more villagey parts to another constituency, so is more urban that it was. But even Rishi ought to hold it.

[Youngian]

This Life* fan Braverman recreating Tony Curran in the shower with Ferdi.

* Hip TV show from the 90s.

[Tubby Isaacs]

BBC2’s hit drama series about the lives and loves of a group of twenty something lawyers living in a London.

[Abernathy]

More similarities between 1992-97 and 2019-24 :

“Rishi Sunak is a decent, honest man” = “John Major is a decent, honest man” *

“The economy has turned a corner” = “There are the green shoots of economic recovery” (Norman Lamont).#

* Caveat here is that I grew tired of pointing out that the terms “honest, decent man” and “leader of the Conservative Party” were mutually exclusive (though in Major’s case, certainly by comparison to Sunak, I may now consider revising that).

# Lamont was talking bollocks, as is Hunt.

[Youngian]

Mark Harper hasn’t explained who the Labour Party is pitting me against when I drive in 20 mph zones.

[Watchman]

To be perfectly honest; who in their right minds wants to drive through London, especially as it is better served for public transport than other parts of the country.

[Andy McDandy]

Hey, that massive coronary is mine by right and nobody's going to keep it from me!

[Youngian]

Many are curious as to what the PPCs who replace the many retiring Conservative MPs will be like. Look no further than the skip fire that is Susan Hall.

[Crabcakes]

“Rishi Sunak is a decent, honest man” = “John Major is a decent, honest man” *

I’m no fan of Major, but anyone who thinks that he and Sunak are remotely comparable is either deliberately disingenuous or hasn’t paid attention to anything that’s happened since Sunak became PM. I could and pretty much did disagree with all of Major’s policies, but I also didn’t feel he had open contempt for the electorate. With Sunak I do - I genuinely feel he loathes having to deal with ‘the little people’.

If Johnson and Sunak want to add a genuine achievement to their rancid CVs, rehabilitation of the post-thatcher Tories by comparison is quite the feat.

[Youngian]

What sort of person has left it this late to decide not to vote Tory again?