MP and former Attorney General Dominic Grieve has lost a vote of no-confidence by local Conservatives. It followed after a discussion about Brexit by party association members in Buckinghamshire. Grieve has been a prominent campaigner for another referendum on the UK leaving the EU.
Opposition to him is reported to have been organised by a former UKIP candidate, with more than 38,000 people who had signed an online petition calling for his de-selection.
According to Mr. Grieve, he had no intention of standing down but he would now need to ask the local association to re-select him as a candidate in the next general election.