Good News! Several of the biggest supporters of Brexit have announced their intention to stand in the next election. Bad News! It doesn’t need to be held until January 2025 – which means for the time being, we’re still saddled with these choices…
1) Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire)
The former culture secretary and Boris Johnson superfan who made the height of Beatlemania a little dull, ardent Brexiteer Dorris told viewers of her talkTV show earlier this month that “it is absolutely true that Brexit has killed people during the pandemic”. helped save lives” meant that the government could approve vaccines more quickly – claims long debunked. Johnson is expected to trade his 24,664 majority for a seat in the Lords on the much-anticipated resignation honors list.
2) Matt Hancock (West Suffolk)
The former health secretary ran for the Conservative leadership in 2019 on a ticket opposing a no-deal Brexit, only to enthusiastically embrace it months later to become part of Johnson’s cabinet, saying she was concerned about the dangers of such an exit. He “changed his mind”. walk down parliament after your lucrative gains I’m a celebrity… Tenure to find “new ways for me to communicate” with the public.
3) Dehna Davison (Bishop Auckland)
The Red Wall poster girl who is retiring from frontline politics at the age of 29, after spending just three years (at the time of writing) as an MP. Davison, pictured on January 31, 2020 with a man who previously praised Adolf Hitler as “a great man” (he said he “highlighted individuals related in any way does not condone views”) 7,962 majority to his successor.
4) Adam Afriyi (Windsor)
The little-known businessman who briefed the press on “friends” in 2013 could be a leadership challenger to David Cameron, Afridi was an early staunch Brexiteer who until last year was reduced to making complex arguments about how the EU Quitting will help people cut down on smoking. He was declared bankrupt last year by a court ruling which found he owed around £1.7million.
5) Andrew Percy (Brig & Gull)
At ministerial level under the short-lived (less than a year) Theresa May, Percy is a fan of referenda which called for the reintroduction of the death penalty in 2011. Wished my constituents “Happy Brexit Day” in January 2020, optimistically cheering “Hope the divisions of the past few years can now be healed and we can forge a new future as a truly independent nation!” “.
6) Charles Walker (Broxbourne)
One of the very few repentant sinners among Tory Brexiters, said in 2019: “The day I die, I will forever curse myself for ever thinking a referendum was a good idea” Listeners to “I’m an idiot.” I’m happy to admit to your listeners that I’m an idiot.” Kash proved he hasn’t learned anything after two years, announcing that he’ll be taking a pint of milk with him during the Covid lockdown oppose the sanctions.
7) William Wragg (Hazel Grove)
The deputy chairman of the Conservatives’ backbench 1922 committee, who in 2016 assured those who might have concerns about Brexit, for which he campaigned, “ignore the doomsday predictions that have scared people, And [I] Let me assure you that, if handled correctly, this Brexit journey that we are now embarking on will leave us in a better position”. (Voiceover: It was not handled properly).
8) Nigel Adams (Selby & Anstey)
A junior minister in several roles under both Theresa May and Johnson, Adams is one of a number of Tory MPs whose constituency is likely to disappear following boundary changes in 2024. Japan is better known for “affirming the UK’s commitment to the Osaka Expo” in July 2022, but for still being filmed “fucking off” a Brexit protester in the street outside parliament.
9) Crispin Blunt (Regat)
The former chair of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, who in 2019 assured constituents that getting Brexit done, even through proroguing parliament, “needs to fix our differences to regain the trust of internationalists”. The process of doing will begin”. Last year it was claimed that the conviction of a fellow Conservative MP for a child sex offense was an “international scandal” and a “serious miscarriage of justice”.
10) Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead)
The hardcore Brexiteer who held several junior ministerial posts under David Cameron and May told constituents in 2016 that the Remainers “will say we will lose business with the EU – again wrong. The EU needs us more than we need”. needed.” In May 2021 he tabled an early day motion in the Commons demanding that “since the UK has left the EU, the UK should now leave the Eurovision Song Contest”. No other MP signed.