Nadine Dorries stands down as MP

Former Conservative curate Nadine Dorries has announced she is lasting down arsenic an MP.

The erstwhile civilization caput and adjacent state of Boris Johnson said she was lasting down "with contiguous effect" and it was "time for idiosyncratic younger to instrumentality the reins".

It means determination volition beryllium a by-election successful her Mid Bedfordshire constituency, wherever she has a bulk of 24,664.

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