Former prime minister Liz Truss sensationally lost her seat in the Tory election bloodbath.
Former prime minister Liz Truss led a parade of Tory big hitters who sensationally lost her seat in the Tory election bloodbath.
Senior Tory figures - including a record number of Cabinet ministers - lost their seats in an election bloodbath She Truss beat Rishi Sunak to the Tory leadership in 2022. But her popularity nosedived after her devastating mini-budget with Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng which led to the plunge of the pound and had widespread economic impacts.
Asked whether she accepted some responsibility for that, Ms Truss said: 'I agree. I was part of that. That's absolutely true. The former business secretary's defeat was a reversal of 2010, when he bet Mr Norris in the predecessor constituency. Sir Jacob then thanked his agent, campaign director and constituency staff who had 'worked so hard over the last 14 years'.
Mr Shapps has held a series of Cabinet positions under four Tory prime ministers - including energy security and net zero secretary, business secretary and home secretary. Mr Shapps continued to use the name Michael Green for his business interests throughout the 2005 election campaign and his early years as an opposition MP. 'Mr Green' charged clients £183 an hour for advice on how to make money from the web as well as offering tips on how to beat the recession blues, including splashing out on a jet-ski or learning to play the guitar.
The former defence secretary was runner up to Rishi Sunak in 2022 and had also stood in the previous leadership race won by Liz Truss. Labour's Amanda Martin ousted the Leader of the House of Commons from Portsmouth North, winning by just 780 votes. 'Our renewal as a party and a country will not be achieved by us talking to an ever smaller slice of ourselves but being guided by the people of our country. And if we want again to be the natural party of government, then our values must be the people's.
Ms Keegan had pushed for banning smartphones in schools. She also oversaw draft statutory sex education guidance that 'gender ideology' should not be taught in schools. The Merseyside-born Tory, who grew up in a working class family and left school at 16, accused critics of her jewellery of 'inverted snobbery'.
Less than a year into the role she was fighting a major crisis after ordering more than 100 schools to make closures because of concerns that a crumbling aerated concrete could collapse. 'Try being elected to Parliament and you'll understand. I am able now to resume my life and that is going to be a great blessing to me.The Liberal Democrats took out Justice Secretary Alex Chalk in Cheltenham.
Senior Tory Liam Fox, who had been the MP for North Somerset since 1992, also narrowly lost his seat to Labour candidate Sadik Al-Hassan by 639 votes.
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