Former deputy prime minister and Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has announced he will not recontest his seat of New England at the next election.

In a statement, he said his relationship with the current Nationals leadership had irreparably broken down.

"The instructions that during the federal election I was not to campaign outside New England as that did not represent the views of the Nationals, then after the election being moved on for 'generational change'," Mr Joyce's statement said.

"And just the atmospherics in the party room, where I am seated in the far corner of the Coalition in the chamber, means I am seen and now turning into a discordant note.

"That is not who I want to be.

"More importantly our position in continuing to support Net Zero with the massive schism and hurt

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