LONDON — Rory Stewart has resigned from Boris Johnson's Conservative party and said he will not stand at the next general election.
Stewart — who ran against Johnson in the contest to replace Theresa May as party leader and prime minister earlier this year — is a vocal critic of the Conservative government's handling of Brexit.
He and 20 other members of Parliament had the Conservative whip removed after they voted to stop a no-deal Brexit.
On Friday morning he tweeted: "It's been a great privilege to serve Penrith and The Border for the last ten years, so it is with sadness that I am announcing that I will be standing down at the next election, and that I have also resigned from the Conservative Party."
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