Chris Grayling joins list of Tories standing down at next election

MP since 2001, nicknamed Failing Grayling' for fraught record as transport secretary, says time for a change after cancer treatment

Chris Grayling, the former transport secretary, has become the latest Conservative MP to announce he is standing down at the next general election.

Grayling said he had been successfully treated for prostate cancer this year and the diagnosis had led him to decide it was time for a change".