Don’t worry, they’re only moving next door to the Lords.

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High-profile former cabinet ministers including Sajid Javid, Ben Wallace and Dominic Raab – all of whom in other circumstances might have risen further in their political careers – are among those stepping down.

Now senior Tory figures are worried these departures will mean that, win or lose, the party will be left with a particularly inexperienced crop of MPs at the next election.

The long-serving former Labour chief whip Nick Brown, who announced his resignation from the party over a long-running investigation into a complaint against him, is also retiring.

Philip Nye, who has been tracking the data for the Institute for Government, said: “There are quite a lot of big names this time: we’ve got Dominic Raab, Sajid Javid, Matt Hancock.

Jonathan Djanogly, the MP for Huntingdon, decided to step down after failing to get selected to stand in a newly redrawn constituency covering his area.

The justice minister, Mike Freer, announced he would not seek re-election after a string of incidents and threats, including a near-encounter with the man who went on to murder the former Southend West MP Sir David Amess.

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