While those MPs who had already announced they were leaving gave their final speeches in the House of Commons, Michael Gove and Dame Andrea Leadsom said they would be leaving parliament.
On the final day the House of Commons sat before the election, the view from the back of the chamber said it all. As Theresa May - in her familiar flame red suit - left the chamber after a speech by Ben Wallace, the Tory benches were packed, Labour's almost deserted. MPs were taking part in a 'Valedictory Debate', an unprecedented and hastily convened piece of parliamentary business for departing MPs to say their farewells.
'The impact of the scrutiny of politics, especially when people make mistakes, has a huge impact on them, and they have put up with a lot,' he said, close to tears. There were tears too from former sports minister Dame Tracey Crouch during what she said was 'one of the most emotional speeches I have ever made in parliament'.
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