if you look, thibaut is attached to the ceiling to stop him falling over.vative leadership candidate, rory stewart, has resigned from the party, and announced he will run as an independent candidate to become london's mayor. mr stewart will leave parliament at the next election. and rory stewartjoins us now from westminster now. thank you forjoining us. what has prompted this? two things, one of them, i feel prompted this? two things, one of them, ifeel our prompted this? two things, one of them, i feel our old political system and parties are becoming more extreme and being driven apart and there is a gaping hole in the centre ground of british politics for what i'd call a common—sense, moderate, independent approach, and the second is that i think the way to really make change in the modern world is intensely local, through being a mayor, not through being a member of parliament. one of the things that was frustrating as a member of parliament is that my constituents we re parliament is that my constituents were often asking me about very local issues and