One-time contender to become British prime minister, Rory Stewart, steps down
Conservative MP Rory Stewart talks to media in Westminster, in London, Britain September 24, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
MANCHESTER, England - Rory Stewart, a one-time contender to become British prime minister, said on Friday he had resigned from the governing Conservative Party and would not run at the next election. Stewart, a former aid minister, was one of 21 Conservatives to be expelled from the party for backing the first step last month to introduce a new law designed to block Britain from leaving the European Union without a divorce deal.
“It’s been a great privilege to serve Penrith and The Border for the last ten years, so it is with sadness that I am announcing that I will be standing down at the next election, and that I have also resigned from the Conservative Party,” Stewart said on Twitter, referring to his parliamentary seat in northern England.
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