ALBAWABA - Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss lost her seat in South West Norfolk, eastern England, in Friday's elections as the Labour Party swept to power in the UK.
The Labour candidate in her seat beat Truss, who was Prime Minister for the shortest time in history owing to her policies precipitating a bond market meltdown and a significant decrease in the pound in 2022.
This election marked a major change in UK politics as the Labour Party capitalised on unhappiness with the Conservative Party's lengthy control.
Eleven Conservative ministers, including House of Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt, lost their seats.
Justice Minister Alex Chalk, Education Minister Gillian Keegan, Defence Minister Grant Shapps, Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt, Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Minister Lucy Frazer, Science, Technology, and Innovation Minister Michelle Donelan, Transport Minister Simon Hart, and Wales Minister David Davies were excluded from parliament.
Former PM Liz Truss was another Conservative who failed to join parliament. The final Prime Minister under Queen Elizabeth and the first under King Charles III for 49 days, Truss, lost her seat to Labour challenger Terry Jermy by 640 votes.
Truss signed King Charles' accession document. To symbolize royal responsibility, Mordaunt offered the sword during King Charles' coronation.
The Labour Party won 412 seats in the 650-seat parliament and 34% of the vote in the UK general election yesterday, ending 14 years of Conservative control.
The Labour Party, which gained 202 seats in 2019, currently has 412 MPs, according to preliminary statistics. Conservative MPs dropped from 365 to 120.
Labour won 33.8% and the Conservatives 23.7%. The Liberal Democrats won 71 seats with 12.2% of the vote.
Scottish National Party (SNP) MPs dropped from 48 to 9. Sinn Féin, which wants to reunite Northern Ireland with the Republic, kept its 7 seats in parliament.
7 seats went to Northern Ireland's unionist parties, while 1 went to the neutral Alliance Party.
According to partial figures, the far-right Reform UK Party won 4 seats. After seven failed elections, Nigel Farage, the party's leader, joined parliament on his eighth.
