A number of Rishi Sunak’s Cabinet and high-profile Tories have suffered defeat.
Eight Cabinet ministers have lost their seats in the General Election, beating the previous record of seven defeats in 1997.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.The House of Commons Leader, Penny Mordaunt, lost her Portsmouth North seat to Labour’s Amanda Martin.
The legal system has faced severe challenges under his watch – with a backlog of court cases, delays due to Covid-19 and industrial action by criminal defence barristers.The Education Secretary since 2022 and MP for Chichester from 2017, Gillian Keegan lost her seat to Liberal Democrat candidate Jess Brown-Fuller.
Before being elected as the MP for South East Cambridgeshire in 2015, she worked as a barrister in commercial law.The Veterans Minister was first elected in the 2015 General Election, having never voted before. She faced calls to resign earlier in the year after taxpayers’ money was used to pay damages to an academic she had accused of expressing sympathy for Hamas.Chief whip Simon Hart managed just third place in the newly created Caerfyrddin constituency, with Plaid Cymru’s Ann Davies taking the top spot.
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