There are 122 aspiring MPs vying for the votes of Kent residents in the general election on July 4 this year. However, only 18 of them will make the cut and sit in Parliament to represent the county for the next five years. Who’s definitely not returning? Prior to the election being called, some of Kent’s incumbent MPs had already announced their intention not to stand again. Natalie Elphicke had sat as the Tory MP for Dover & Deal since 2019, but drew headlines in early May with her shock defection to the Labour Party. Nonetheless, she is not restanding, with Labour’s Mike Tapp the prospectiv…