Penny Mordaunt and Grant Shapps are amongst various Conservative cupboard ministers who’ve misplaced their seats in fast succession amid a Tory massacre.
The humiliating blows one after the opposite come as Sir Keir Starmer is ready to be swept to energy by a landslide Labour victory.
Labour is predicted to have a 170-seat majority within the Commons, with the Tories lowered to only 131 seats – their lowest variety of MPs on report.
If the outcomes indicated by an exit ballot are correct, Rishi Sunak’s time period as Prime Minister will finish in electoral catastrophe and will see him resign.
As Mr Sunak makes an attempt to carry on to his Richmond and Northallerton seat, various his Cupboard members have already been defeated.
Ms Mordaunt, the Conservative chief of the Home of Commons who misplaced her seat of Portsmouth North, stated in defeat: ‘To anybody who’s upset, democracy isn’t mistaken.’
Defence Secretary Mr Shapps, who misplaced his Welwyn Hatfield seat, paid tribute to the ‘selfless braveness of the women and men of this nation who serve in our armed forces’.
Chief whip Simon Hart, Training Secretary Gillian Keegan, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk, Tradition Secretary Lucy Frazer and Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer have additionally misplaced their seats.
Comply with MailOnline’s protection as we have a look at the Tory huge weapons desperately clinging on to keep away from a Portillo second – a reference to Tory cupboard minister Michael Portillo shedding a protected Tory seat in Labour’s 1997 landslide.
Penny Mordaunt, the Conservative chief of the Home of Commons, misplaced her seat of Portsmouth North
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps seems to be glum as he loses his seat on the Welwyn and Hatfield
- Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Richmond & Northallerton. End result: TBC
- Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden, Hertsmere: End result: TBC
- Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Farnham Surrey. End result: TBC
- Residence Secretary James Cleverly, Braintree. End result: TBC
- Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, Welwyn Hatfield: End result: DEFEAT
- Justice Secretary Alex Chalk, Cheltenham. End result: DEFEAT
- Science Secretary Michelle Donelan. End result: TBC
- Victoria Atkins, Louth and Horncastle: Well being Secretary. End result: VICTORY
- Atmosphere Secretary Steve Barclay, North East Cambridgeshire. End result: TBC
- Chief of the Home of Commons Penny Mordaunt, Portsmouth North. End result: DEFEAT
- Enterprise Secretary Kemi Badenoch, North West Essex. End result: VICTORY
- Power Secretary Claire Coutinho, East Surrey. End result: VICTORY
- Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride, Central Devon. End result: TBC
- Training Secretary Gillian Keegan, Chichester. End result: DEFEAT
- Transport Secretary Mark Harper, Forest of Dean. End result: TBC
- Tradition Secretary Lucy Frazer KC, South East Cambridgeshire. End result: DEFEAT
- Richard Holden, North West Durham. End result: VICTORY
- Welsh Secretary David TC Davies, Monmouth. End result: TBC
- Treasury (Chief Whip) Simon Hart, Caerfyrddin. End result: DEFEAT
- Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott, Sevenoaks. End result: VICTORY
- Lawyer Basic Victoria Prentis, Banbury. End result: TBC
- Paymaster common John Glen, Salisbury. End result: TBC
- Safety minister Tom Tugendhat, Tonbridge and Malling. End result: TBC
- International Workplace minister Andrew Mitchell, Sutton Coldfield. End result: VICTORY
- Veterans minister Johnny Mercer, Plymouth Moor View. End result: DEFEAT
- Immigration minister Michael Tomlinson, Mid Dorset and North Poole. End result: TBC
