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Nigel Adams: Selby and Ainsty MP to stand down at election

Conservative MP Nigel Adams has confirmed he will step down in the next general election in 2024.

Mr Adams – who is also a Minister without portfolio – was first elected MP for Selby and Ainsty in 2010 and has defended the seat three times in the constituency.

In the last election, he won with a majority of more than 20,000 votes.

Mr Adams, 55, said he wanted to spend time with other interests after more than a decade in Parliament.

The MP was appointed to his post in the Cabinet Office during a cabinet reshuffle by Boris Johnson in September.

He was previously Minister for Asia in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

In September, a spokesman for Mr Adams defended him after he was filmed berating a veteran pro-EU activist who approached him outside Parliament buildings.

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