UK Election Result: Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party Faced Historic Defeat To Labour Party. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has claimed responsibility for the Conservative Party’s history general election defeat to the Labour Party. Sir Keir Starmer’s party crossed a majority of 326 seats in the House of Commons. This was the first general election after Britain’s formal exit from the European Union.
Sunak said the electorate delivered a sobering verdict on the Tories and apologized to the party members who had lost their seats. Commons leader Penny Mordaunt, who lost her seat, said the party took a battering because it failed to honor the trust of the people. And former justice secretary Sir Robert Buckland said the party fell to an electoral Armageddon.
He attributed the party’s election loss to members focusing on their agenda and jockeying for position rather than concentrating on the job they had been elected to do.
Buckland highlighted that his colleagues struck poses, wrote inflammatory op-eds, and said stupid things they had no evidence for. He believes the Conservatives will be like a group of bald men arguing over a comb.
Rishi Sunak to Leave Number 10
Given the battering defeat, Sunak has to vacate Number 10 Downing Street, the traditional residence of the UK Prime Minister, for good. Former PM Liz Truss had also done the same when she resigned and now it’s Sunak’s turn after defeat to Starmer.
Sunak rose to power in 2022, as the youngest PM of the United Kingdom, after the fall of Boris Johnson and Truss. He was born in Southampton, attended Winchester College and graduated from Oxford University with a first-class degree in politics, philosophy and economics.
Before stepping into politics, Sunak worked for Goldman Sachs as an analyst and came into the limelight of politics when he won the Conservative seat (Richmond) in 2015. And there was no looking back as he swiftly climbed the ranks of the party and the government.
