{"id":50623,"date":"2022-12-02T11:44:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T11:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/?p=50623"},"modified":"2022-12-02T12:55:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T12:55:51","slug":"sajid-javid-former-chancellor-will-stand-down-at-next-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/sajid-javid-former-chancellor-will-stand-down-at-next-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Sajid Javid, former Chancellor, will stand down at next election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Conservative MP Sajid Javid has announced that he will not seek re-election in the next general election.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MP for Bromsgrove has stated: \u201cBeing the local MP and serving in Government has been the privilege of my life and I am immensely grateful for the opportunity to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Javid\u2019s letter to the city\u2019s Conservative Association chairman, Paul Uppal, the MP\u2019s decision will not be the end of his activity in Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After much reflection I have decided that I will not be standing again at the next General Election.<br><br>Serving as the Member of Parliament for Bromsgrove remains an incredible privilege, and I will continue to support the Government and the causes I believe in. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qskUo5jjOR\">pic.twitter.com\/qskUo5jjOR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sajid Javid (@sajidjavid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sajidjavid\/status\/1598635665737928705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Javid stated that his decision was largely influenced by continuous Labour Party support and a Conservative Party review. The review has resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/the-mps-who-have-announced-they-are-standing-down-at-the-next-general-election-12758551\">11 other Tory MPs<\/a> to also announce decisions to not run for re-election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Javid worked under former Prime Minister Theresa May as home secretary and served as chancellor for Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Words: Cerah Handsaker | Subbing: Yana Trup<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative MP Sajid Javid has announced that he will not seek re-election in the next general election. The MP for Bromsgrove has stated: \u201cBeing the local MP and serving in Government has been the privilege&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":50638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,93,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-news","category-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50623"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50772,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50623\/revisions\/50772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}