From Liz Truss to Penny Mordaunt, all the Tory big beasts and cabinet ministers who have lost their seats

**From The Telegraph’s Albert Tait:**

The Conservatives have lost a string of senior “big beast” MPs with the party on course to lose power in a historic wipeout.

Eight Cabinet ministers have now lost their seats in the general election, beating the previous record of seven Cabinet ministerial defeats in 1997.

Tory party members in constituencies elsewhere in the country were nervously waiting for votes to be called, with some in the most hotly contested seats going to recount.

These are the big beast Tories who have lost their seats.

Grant Shapps, the former Defence Secretary, was ousted by Labour in Welwyn Hatfield, a constituency he has represented since 2005. [Labour won the seat ](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/04/labour-general-election-2024-latest-starmer-rayner-reeves/)with 19,877 votes. Mr Shapps came second with just over 16,000 votes.

Mr Shapps is a veteran of successive Tory governments, having served in six Cabinet roles under four different prime ministers over the past 14 years.

He was previously transport secretary under Boris Johnson, Tory chairman under David Cameron and home secretary during Ms Truss’ tenure.

Considered one of the Government’s best communicators, he had also been touted internally as one of the future successors to Mr Sunak as party leader.

Mr Shapps first won his Hertfordshire seat in 2005 and achieved a high point majority of 17,500 in 2010, though it declined to 11,000 at the 2019 election.

Welwyn Hatfield is one of a number of commuter belt seats where families moving out of London post-pandemic has contributed to a surge in Labour support.

[Penny Mordaunt](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/04/conservatives-general-election-2024-latest-sunak-hunt/) had been heavily tipped as a future [Tory leadership contender](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/04/runners-and-riders-replace-rishi-sunak-conservative-party/), but ended up losing her seat by fewer than 1,000 votes.

The Commons Leader, a centrist, received 13,715 votes in the Portsmouth North seat, losing to Labour with 14,495 votes.

She had represented the Conservatives in two recent TV debates and was seen as one of their best public performers.

She shot to prominence last year after playing a starring ceremonial role at the Coronation which included wielding a giant sword.

A former Navy reservist who comes from a military family, she had represented Portsmouth North since 2010 and won a 15,800 majority at the 2019 election.

**Article Link:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/05/cabinet-ministers-lose-seats-tory-party/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/05/cabinet-ministers-lose-seats-tory-party/)

Byeeeeeeee…. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out

That’s what you get for screwing over the majority of the country you bunch of Tory Cunts.

Should have been all of them. Not one of those smiling, bumbling, blithering idiot incompetent nincompoops deserves to have held onto their seats.

Fuck off to your ponzi schemes and take your corruption with you.

Out of this group of cretins which ones are going to transition to a long career doing train based travel shows?

Liz Truss losing her seat brings me such a large amount of joy. The fact she turned up purposefully late and refused to do a speech and left the stage brings me such a large amount of joy.

The pettiness of her, the childlike way she carries herself, we are so well shot of her.

Somehow, Christopher Chope has hung on. I guess people in my area think he brings youthfulness to the area and that his stance on female genital mutilation is fine.

We couldn’t get rid of human shit stain Priti Patel. That’s disappointing.

Robert Jenrick retained his seat – who voted for that untrustworthy shyster? Both Patel and Braverman survived. Again who voted for these cruel and inhumane monsters? Hunt and Badenoch also survived. Are people really that stupid to vote for those that actually voted in Parliament to make everyones’ lives worse? Seems so.

Shapps, Truss, Rees-Mogg, Coffey, Harper, Mercer, Mordaunt and Keegan all gone. Good riddance

**Who would vote for a party of cruel ponces that over the past decade have:**

**Slashed local government budgets** by about 40% – 60% over a decade

Reductions in the **legal aid** **budget** meant the number of cases funded fell by nearly 90%: vast numbers of people on lower incomes no longer have access to justice.

The **educational maintenance allowance**, a weekly payment to support 16- to 19-year-olds to stay in education, was scrapped in 2010.

The government abandoned subsidies for onshore windfarms; scrapped its “green deal” home efficiency scheme, which helped pay for home insulation; removed tax incentives for drivers to switch to cleaner cars; and privatised the Green Investment Bank.

Post Brexit: losing our **right to live and work** elsewhere on our continent. The loss of British students’ access to the **Erasmus exchange** programme. The career-ruining barriers now faced by British bands or orchestral musicians hoping to ply their trade in Europe.

**Refusal to guarantee the right** of the 3.2 million EU citizens who’d made their homes here to remain in Britain.

Then there was Johnson’s **unlawful prorogation** of parliament; then new **restrictions on the right to protest**; and the **Elections Act** – a naked attempt to help the governing party.

Most importantly: Nearly a fifth of the population are in poverty, including 3.6 million children; more and more families now **rely on food banks**. There are 74% more people **sleeping rough** than there were in 2010, and more than 150,000 families are now homeless – a record number.

This is without mentioning the rampant pollution, the NHS, the environment and education. The list goes on and on.

Who would vote for any MP involved in the intentional worsening and degradation of literally every aspect of living in the UK?