The Scottish National Party was set for its worst showing at a
British parliamentary election since 2010, projections showed, derailing their push for a new independence referendum as a resurgent Labour Party made gains in former heartlands. The SNP, which held 43 seats before the election was called, has suffered from a period of turmoil that has seen two leaders quit in little over a year, a police investigation into the party's finances and splits on a range of policies including its attempts to secure a second referendum on independence.
Truss out
Former British prime minister Liz Truss, who became the country's shortest-serving leader ever when she sparked a bond market meltdown and a collapse in sterling, lost her parliamentary seat in the election. Truss secured 11,217 votes in her South West Norfolk constituency in eastern England, behind 11,847 votes for Labour candidate Terry Jermy.
Taking over from the scandal-ridden premiership of
Boris Johnson, Truss, 48, was forced to announce her resignation after just 44 days when her unfunded tax cuts sparked financial market turmoil, raising the cost of mortgages for homeowners already in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis.
Rees-Mogg out
Former British Conservative minister Jacob Rees-Mogg failed to win the parliamentary seat of North East Somerset and Hanham, losing to the Labour Party.
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Good luck with that.
Several weeks ago the PM Sunak warned that Britain was about to enter 5 Dangerous years. As Britain now has " SICK EAR STAMMER " Mr. Sunak could have known more than anyone as to what these dangers were. Now, time will tell what these dangers become?
James Walker'Doesn't have a mandate from the British people' ??? What do you think just happened, it is called a 'general election'. You'ree not well pal, might be sunstroke, have a lie down x
TFFT. Nothing can be worse than the last 14 years of legalised theft and re appropriation of public funds into private hands. We have corruption in Spain, but at least it has a name, in the UK it is just tory party business as usual. The moaners in the columns and populating FB and other nonsense, are the well trained 'turkeys voting for Christmas', schooled by a tightly organised right wing press coalition, owner my non dom offshore tax dodgers. KS is not my favourite man in the world but anything but another 4 years of conservative rule.
Left wing MDB get there man. I give him 6 months until he looks ill and his hair falls out. I've just seen statistics that 80% of Britain didn't vote for Labour. He doesn't have a mandate from the British people. He's a dead man walking.
This is going to be very painful and very expensive he’s going to ring up more debt than anyone ever did there out of the eu that’s only going to get worse as someone said the people with money are gonna do a runner , he better have some fun but this is not gonna last rough seas ahead I tell ya !
Prepare for a better UK relationship with the EU than the Toxic Tories.
Prepare for in-coming ex-pats.