Nick Boles

a Former Conservative leadership hopeful Rory Stewart stops as MP to run for London mayor as an independent candidate.

He stood in the next year, the election against the incumbent Labour mayor, Sadiq Khan and Tory candidate Shaun Bailey .

He told the BBC the Tories had moved in the direction of "more difficult for me," and he wanted to go back to "the real issues".

Mr Stewart was expelled rebels from the Tories in the lower house with 20 other Brexit, but remained a member of The Party .

The MP for Penrith and The Border now has The Party left. To the announcement of his intention for the London mayor in a video on Twitter, he said: "I'm leaving that gothic scream chamber of Westminster.

"I'm always away from a policy which makes me sometimes feel as if Trump has never left London, and I would like to get to walk through every district of this great city to get back to us on the ground. "

His Conservative rival, Mr. Bailey, said he welcomed the fact that "each candidate, the decision, and you, Mr Khan keep on bill about his sad record in London".

he said He wanted to seed "continues to be a focus on violent crime and how to get we go, in the grip of violence on our Streets ".

head of the Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn tweeted: "Rory Stewart wholeheartedly support the Tory cuts, which tore The Heart out of our communities so much harm to our police, NHS and schools. He would be a disaster for London. "

It's coming announcement, according to Stewart's, that he his resignation as MP at the next election and an end to the Conservative Party .

The next scheduled Federal election in the year 2022, but it is generally expected that a snap poll is imminent, with the Prime Minister , the deputies urge support his call for a. The London mayoral election takes place on 7. In may 2020.

Mr Stewart told the BBC he believed that Political Parties were "getting more and more extreme and dispersed" and said it was a "gaping hole in the middle ground of British politics".

"The way to really change in the modern world, local is intensive by a mayor who is not a member of the Parliament," said he.

The MP said it was "certainly true" that under the Tory whip back "a very important" part was considered in his decision.

But also, that the Prime Minister Boris Johnson ' s more populist sound "table as the one that I'm comfortable," say: "I have seen, to move the Conservative Party in a direction that is more and more difficult for me. "

He has also written, he said, he would be insults against the "mutual. Lazy Habits , half-baked ideas and meaningless compromises" of party policy.

Mr Stewart for the first time publicly his resignation mentioned On Stage at a charity event in London's Royal Albert Hall on Thursday evening, but it was not reported much.

the Letter said for his constituency newspaper, Mr Stewart, he was "extremely grateful" for the support he had received from members of his local party but added: "It should be no secret that it is also the local party members, I would run more again. "

Robert Craig, President of Penrith and The Border Conservative Association, said: "It is a great shame. "

A Conservative Party spokesman said: "We thank Rory for his hard work and wish him all The Best for The Future . "

A Conservative parliamentary candidate for Penrith and The Border selected will be added "in due course," a statement said.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson expelled 21 members from the group at the beginning of September, after they rebelled against him, to prevent that a no-Escape deal.

Some of veteran figures such as Ken Clarke and Sir Nicholas Soames - plan, in the next election, while others, considering how the former German Chancellor, Philip Hammond and former attorney General Dominic Grieve - as reported as self-employed.

Sam Gyimah , The Other expelled by the rebels, the Liberal Democrats , tweeted that Stewart's decision to resign as a member, showed the Conservative Party "has a soul captured by those who want to turn it into a nationalist party".

the Former Tory MP Nick Boles , who resigned from the Conservatives earlier this year, tweeted that Stewart's departure showed that the "Last Rites to be read for the moderate, One Nation conservatism".

Mr Stewart, a former Cabinet colleague, Amber Rudd , tweeted, before Mr Stewart London announced his mayoral candidacy, that he has an "excellent minister" and it was a "loss" of the policy.

But Conservative MP Shailesh Vara , said Mr. Stewart's departure from the Conservative "less A Nation".

Source of news: bbc.com