Liz Truss presents list of notable Conservative seat losses

Former Conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss lost her seat on Friday morning. She has been expelled from Parliament after a chaotic 49-day premiership in 2022 that saw mortgage rates soar, the pound plummet and the central bank intervene to calm markets.

Five years ago she won a majority of more than 26,000 votes. This time she lost by 630 votes, a huge shift in support for the Labour Party.

She told the BBC that the reason the Conservatives lost was because “we didn’t deliver enough on the policies that people want”, such as keeping taxes low and cutting immigration. She said she agreed that she was part of the group in power that had failed to deliver these changes, but she blamed the legacy the party received in 2010, not herself.

“During our 14 years in power, we unfortunately did not do enough to resolve the legacy we left behind,” she said.

But Ms Truss is just one of a number of prominent Conservative lawmakers who lost their seats, including recent cabinet members. Others include:

• Grant Shapps, the Defence Secretary, who during the Conservatives’ 14 years in power also held the positions of Energy Secretary, Economy Secretary, Home Secretary and Transport Secretary.

• Penny Mordaunt, the Leader of the House of Commons, has unsuccessfully run for the party’s leadership.

• Jacob Rees-Mogg, a prominent backer of Boris Johnson, who served as Economy Secretary under Mrs Truss.

• Robert Buckland, former justice secretary, described the election result as “electoral Armageddon” for the Conservatives.

• Gillian Keegan, Secretary of State for Education.

• Lucy Frazer, the Minister for Culture.

• Michelle Donelan, who held cabinet positions under Mr Johnson, Ms Truss and Rishi Sunak, most recently as minister for science, innovation and technology.

  The traditional strongholds lost by the Conservative Party also included seats once held by three other former prime ministers: Johnson, David Cameron and Theresa May.