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Rishi Sunak struggles to maintain grip on power as 65th Tory MP calls it quits

PM’s bad week capped off by James Heappey joining growing ranks of Conservatives stepping down at next election
Rishi Sunak’s perceived weakness has emboldened potential leadership contenders in the Conservative party

If Westminster is becoming a “zombie parliament” then James Heappey, once seen as a rising star of the Conservative party, on Friday joined the ranks of the living dead: Tory MPs stepping down at the next election.

Heappey, a former Army officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, became the 65th Conservative MP to call it quits; almost one in five of Rishi Sunak’s parliamentary party has already in effect checked out.

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