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Indeed. Shows just what a carcrash the Tories have become if even a moderate like Stewart feels he has to leave the party. He isn't even a remainer. Looks like the Tories are becoming unpalatable to many diehards. If Johnson doesn't get a majority,and that looks unlikely then civil war will break out on the right. Btw it shows how right wing our media is that he's just another one whose left. If so many deserted the Labour party it would the headlines for days.
He's resigning because he's standing for Mayor of London against an offishul Tory candidate. Strikes me as a fairly strange move. London is almost as super-pro-remain as Edinburgh and Stewart doesn't oppose Brexit, just no-deal. Sadiq Khan is no Corbynite either, so the safe middle ground pitch isn't really going to wash either. I think he's got a little caught up in his own hubris.