Producers of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and Strictly Ballroom have been inundated with Tory MPs interested in pursuing other possibilities.
With so many Tory MPs opting to stand down at the election there are thought to be a lot of enquiries to the usual TV shows where former politicians go in an attempt to give their image an overhaul. The producers behind I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, Strictly Ballroom, Great British Bake Off (stand up to cancer) and other programmes are said to be inundated with enquiries from current Conservative MPs.
Michael Portillo is concerned that some former colleagues might try to poach his format of riding around on trains hoping people will forget how evil he was. He is said to be particularly concerned about Michael ‘Gollum’ Gove who was seen on a railway platform a while back.
So far 79 Conservative MPs have announced their intention to stand down at their upcoming election. Gove is the latest to announce his intention. The names declared so far are…
- Douglas Ross
- Charles Walker
- Crispin Blunt
- Mike Penning
- Adam Afriyie
- Andrew Percy
- Chloe Smith
- William Wragg
- Gary Streeter
- Dehenna Davison
- Chris Skidmore
- Sajid Javid
- Mark Pawsey
- Matt Hancock
- George Eustice
- Edward Timpson
- Jo Gideon
- Paul Beresford
- Stephen McPartland
- Robin Walker
- Gordon Henderson
- Graham Brady
- Pauline Latham
- Craig Whittaker
- Stuart Anderson
- Nicola Richards
- Henry Smith
- John Howell
- Robert Goodwill
- Julian Knight
- Jonathan Djanogly
- Christopher Pincher
- Matthew Offord
- Alister Jack
- Richard Bacon
- Philip Dunne
- Dominic Raab
- Andy Carter
- Will Quince
- Royston Smith
- Bill Cash
- Lucy Allan
- Steve Brine
- Chris Clarkson
- Ben Wallace
- Trudy Harrison
- Stephen Hammond
- David Jones
- Alok Sharma
- Chris Grayling
- John Baron
- Nick Gibb
- Bob Stewart
- James Duddridge
- Oliver Heald
- Mike Freer
- Bob Neill
- Kwasi Kwarteng
- Nickie Aiken
- Tracey Crouch
- Kieran Mullan
- Paul Scully
- Theresa May
- Brandon Lewis
- James Heappey
- Robert Halfon
- Tim Loughton
- Nadhim Zahawi
- Chris Heaton-Harris
- Jo Churchill
- James Grundy
- Eleanor Laing
- Huw Merriman
- Michael Ellis
- John Redwood
- Craig Mackinlay
- Greg Clark
- David Evennett
- Andrea Leadsom
- Michael Gove