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Spectator's daily politics podcast. I'm Katie Bores and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson

and James Forsyfe. So there's been a drip drip in recent days of MPs signaling they

will not stand for re-election. This is something they mean asked to do in light at the boundary

changes. Fraser, the latest figure is said to jab it probably the most high profile figure yet.

What can we take from the fact this seasoned former cabinet minister, someone who's gone

from the leadership I think not once but three times has decided the commons is no longer the

place for him? Well, I always expected Sasha to stand down at the next election simply because

he has done six cabinet jobs. I don't think there's many people who've done more. He would have

wanted to be foreign secretary under Sinec but that was not offered to him and at that moment

there wasn't really there no more worlds to conquer for him in Westminster. He's still young enough

to go and start again as a financier. I mean, I think he was sort of semi-thinking this under

Theresa May when she would look like she's going to get a massive majority and she didn't want him.

I think he would have under at the limit as to whether he even to stand in between the 17 election

if he had no future. So to me this makes perfect sense. It's slightly more logical than the younger

Tories who are jumping ship. But then again, we've got the situation where we're going to have I

think they've got a deadline until 5th of December to say if they want to stand again and if not

they can start to shape their new lives accordingly. So I think probably by the early next week

we'll have a few more names and also we ought to remember that right now where Sinec is still doing

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