Peter Kilfoyle to stand down at general election

Published: 7:30AM GMT twenty-four February 2010

The Labour MP for Liverpool Walton has sat in the Commons given 1991 after winning his chair in a by-election.

He was a counterclaim apportion underneath Tony Blair but after became one of the then-prime minister"s fiercest Labour critics over the Iraq War.

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His preference takes the total of MPs who have so far voiced they will give up the Commons at the choosing to 138, most stirred by the losses scandal.

Mr Kilfoyle declined to criticism on his reasons for withdrawal Parliament at this time. He leaves a Labour infancy in Liverpool Walton of 15,957.