Mordaunt and Shapps among record-breaking number of ministers to lose seats amid Tory wipeout

By Olivia Mustafa, ITV News Producer

• Penny Mordaunt has lost her seat in Portsmouth to Labour

• Liz Truss has been beaten to her Norfolk seat by Labour

• Jacob Rees-Mogg also suffered a loss to Labour in Somerset

General Election results have poured in during the small hours of Friday morning, revealing a Labour majority - and record Conservative losses.

Some of the night's most memorable moments have come from the toppling of Tory political heavyweights.

Numerous cabinet members have lost their seats, including Penny Mordaunt, Grant Shapps and Gillian Keegan.

This has broken the previous record for the most cabinet ministers to be ousted in an election, when seven were defeated in 1997.

Former Prime Minister Liz Truss has also lost her seat in South West Norfolk, losing to Labour by around 600 votes.

Ex-Leader of the Commons Penny Mordaunt was beaten by Labour in Portsmouth North, gaining 13,715 votes to Labour's 14,495.

Former defence secretary Shapps lost the battle for Welwyn Hatfield to Labour's Andrew Lewin, who secured 41% of votes.

Gillian Keegan, who was education secretary, lost out on Chichester to Lib Dem Jess Brown-Fuller, by 25,540 votes to Keegan’s 13,368.

Ex Justice Secretary Alex Chalk has also lost his seat of Cheltenham to Liberal Democrat candidate Max Wilkinson, after a swing of 1.3 points.

In the Forest of Dean, Transport Secretary Mark Harper found himself defeated by Labour after Matt Bishop clinched a narrow victory.

Science Secretary Michelle Donelan lost her seat in Melksham and Devizes to the Liberal Democrats.

Lucy Frazer, who held the position of Culture Secretary, also lost out to the Liberal Democrats in Ely and East Cambridgeshire.

Labour candidate Fred Thomas beat former Veterans minister Johnny Mercer to the constituency of Plymouth Moor View.

In Wales, Simon Hart, former Tory Chief Whip, lost the constituency of Caerfyrddin to Plaid Cymru. He came third place.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, not part of Sunak's cabinet yet another senior Tory figure, was ousted from his North East Somerset and Hanham seat by Labour.

Penny Mordaunt had a brief spell as defence secretary in 2019 - as well as two failed leadership bids.

Many will recognise her from the King's Coronation, where she carried two heavy swords, and her recent role in General Election debates.

Mordaunt was tipped to run for party leadership again, a feat now out of reach after the loss of her seat.

Liz Truss is famed for taking the title of the UK's shortest-serving Prime Minister, lasting just 44 days in the role before resigning.

She continues to defend her mini-budget, introduced by her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, which sparked an economic crisis.

Earlier in the campaign, it was assumed she would retain her seat, but Labour's Terry Jermy swept to victory despite Truss defending a hefty 26,195 majority.

Today, she is the first former prime minister in more than 14 years to lose their seat.

Watch as Grant Shapps loses his seat in Welwyn Hatfield.

Grant Shapps' career has seen him take on five different positions in the Cabinet - transport secretary, home secretary, energy security secretary, business secretary, and most recently, defence secretary.

He backed Rishi Sunak in the party leadership contest against Liz Truss, following his own short-lived bid in 2022.

But he had his share of political scandals - from being accused of anonymously editing his own Wikipedia page in 2015, to allegedly having a second job after entering parliament under a pseudonym.

Gillian Keegan said losing her seat in Chichester to Lib Dem candidate Jess Brown-Fuller was 'not the outcome we wanted'.

Keegan lost her seat after seven years of representing Chichester, which has been a Conservative-held constituency since 1924.

The education secretary had been praised for putting an end to months of teachers' strikes by negotiating a pay deal with unions.

But she came under fire for her handling of the RAAC crisis, where hundreds of schools and colleges had to close just days before the new term due to crumbling concrete in buildings.

The scandal deepened when she voiced her frustrations at the end of an interview with ITV News.

“Does anyone ever say, you know what, you’ve done a f****** good job because everyone else has sat on their arse and done nothing?” she said, later apologising for her language.

Jacob Rees-Mogg lost out on his seat to an old foe, Dan Norris - the Labour candidate who headed the North East Somerset for 13 years before Rees-Mogg unseated him in 2010.

He was Leader of the House of Commons from July 2019 to February 2022, followed by a brief spell as Business Secretary during Liz Truss' premiership.

Rees-Mogg came under fire earlier this year from Ofcom for being among three Tory MPs who broke impartiality rules during GB News programmes.

Reacting to heavy Tory losses, he said: “There’s no way of describing this as anything other than a bad night for the Conservative Party."

Rees-Mogg said the Tory loss came down to the party "abandoning core voters".

Alex Chalk spent 14 years as a barrister before he was elected as an MP, and specialised in counter-terrorism, homicide and serious fraud cases.

Under his tenure as justice secretary, the legal system has faced severe challenges - including a backlog of court cases, delays due to Covid-19 and industrial action by criminal defence barristers.

Max Wilkinson celebrates as he clinches Cheltenham from Alex Chalk.

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