{"id":53760,"date":"2024-05-18T22:55:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T22:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/18\/northern-ireland-secretary-chris-heaton-harris-will-not-stand-at-next-election\/"},"modified":"2024-05-18T22:55:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T22:55:27","slug":"northern-ireland-secretary-chris-heaton-harris-will-not-stand-at-next-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/18\/northern-ireland-secretary-chris-heaton-harris-will-not-stand-at-next-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris will not stand at next election"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has said he won’t be standing at the next general election but will keep campaigning for the Conservative Party.<\/p>\n

In a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak<\/a><\/strong>, which he posted on X on Saturday night, Mr Heaton-Harris said after 24 years in politics, it had been an “honour and a privilege to serve”.<\/p>\n

He thanked the people of Daventry, Mr Sunak and former Tory leaders, including Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, “for putting their trust in me”.<\/p>\n

Mr Heaton-Harris, who has been serving as Northern Ireland secretary since September 2022, said: “I started as a campaigner and I’ll be out campaigning for @Conservatives at the next election because we are the only party that has and can deliver for the whole of the United Kingdom.”<\/p>\n

He joins an exodus of Tory politicians who have announced they will be leaving Westminster at the next general election.<\/p>\n

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More than 100 MPs<\/a><\/strong> from across the Commons have said they will not be standing.<\/p>\n

Those who have announced their intention to leave parliament range from the longest-serving female MP, Labour’s Harriet Harman, to one of those only elected at the last election in 2019, Conservative MP Dehenna Davison.<\/p>\n

Of the more than 60 Tory MPs<\/strong><\/a> stepping aside, high profile names include former cabinet ministers Ben Wallace, Sajid Javid, Dominic Raab and Kwasi Kwarteng.<\/p>\n

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Back in March, Mrs May, 67, said she too had taken the “difficult decision” to quit the Commons after 27 years representing her Maidenhead constituency.<\/p>\n

The last possible day for a general election is Tuesday 28 January 2025.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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