Big Names Fall in Historic Tory Election Defeat

Published on July 5, 2024

Liz Truss, Grant Shapps, and Penny Mordaunt are among a number of senior Tories who lost their seats as Labour was handed a landslide victory. Meanwhile, Rishi Sunak and a number of his potential replacements, including Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, managed to survive the Tory bloodbath. With 649 out of 650 seats declared, Labour has won a commanding majority with 412 seats, while the Conservatives are down to only 121 seats. It’s 244 less than what the Tories won in 2019 and 225 down from the number of Tory seats before Parliament was dissolved in May. Many of the right-wing votes were split by Reform UK, which only won five seats but came second in almost 100 constituencies. Some seats were won by razor-thin margins, including London’s Hendon where Labour won by just 15 votes....

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