Among the Cabinet ministers to lose seats were Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk and Education Secretary Gillian Keegan.
Competing factions of the Conservative Party have begun battling over its future after a disastrous night for the incumbents.
Among the Cabinet ministers to lose their seats overnight were Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, to Labour, and Justice Secretary Alex Chalk, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan and Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer to the Liberal Democrats.Jeremy Hunt has won the Godalming and Ash seat in Surrey, while Rishi Sunak remains an MP in North Yorkshire – in Richmond and Northallerton.
The Hampshire MP wrote a Telegraph article earlier this week with the headline: “It’s over, we have failed.”He added: “We can see articles being written before a vote is cast at the General Election about the party heading for defeat and what the prognosis should be.Former defence secretary Grant Shapps
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