Treasury committee chair Andrew Tyrie to step down as MP

Tyrie has been chairman of the select committee for seven years, pressing the government and financial regulators on issues ranging from whistleblowing to the funding of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. An MP for Chichester since the 1997 General Election, Tyrie has also been involved in other select committees as a Tory backbencher, including the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards. Tyrie said: "It has been an exhilarating twenty years. I have done what I can to make a contribution, particularly in efforts to improve banking standards and to shape a more trusted ...