Liz Truss among top Tories to lose their seats in Keir Starmer and Labour’s UK election landslide

Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss has been humiliated at the general election.

After scoring more than 400 wins in Friday’s British general election, it must be hard going for Keir Starmer to decide which one is the sweetest victory of them all.

The former prime minister ­humiliated? The record 11 cabinet ministers who lost their seats? Nearly all of the Scottish National Party wiped out without mercy by the Scots?

Here are some of the big political names who got swept away by the Labour landslide.

Liz Truss

Outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will have only one consolation in all this mess – Liz Truss lost her seat.

Mr Sunak’s predecessor in Number 10 – well, she house-sat in Downing Street for eight weeks – will surely get a lot of blame in any Tory review of this catastrophic loss.

Her radical mini-budget spooked the markets, tied the Conservatives to huge interest rate spikes, and destroyed her premiership before it truly began.

Ms Truss proceeded to dump on Mr Sunak at every opportunity, blamed the “establishment” for her failures, and made it clear she still saw herself as a free-market messiah.

Turns out her own voters agreed with the establishment. She lost her once safe South West Norfolk seat to Labour’s Terry Jermy.

Outgoing Tory MP for Portmouth North Penny Mordaunt on Thursday night. Picture: Getty Images

Penny Mordaunt

Penny Mordaunt was the Prime Minister Who Never Was, and she will remain a great political “what if”’ after she lost the seat of Portsmouth North to Labour’s Amanda Martin.

The telegenic House of Commons leader launched a much-vaunted campaign for No.10 after Boris Johnson’s resignation as prime minister in 2022, but she lost support for being soft on women’s rights and amid questions as to whether she had the substance for the to job.

Ms Mordaunt later made global headlines when she stylishly carried the sword of state at the King’s coronation, and there was even talk of her taking over the party after the Prime Minister’s fatal D-Day blunder. She joins at least nine other cabinet ministers ousted at this election along with Defence Secretary Grant Shapps and Justice Secretary Alex Chalk.

Jacob Rees-Mogg on Thursday night. Picture: Getty Images

Jacob Rees-Mogg

They slammed him as the Minister for the 19th Century, so it’s kind of fitting that Jacob Rees-Mogg lost his seat in the worst Tory defeat since Queen Victoria died.

With his toffy accent, his long face, and his penchant for top hats, Sir Jacob did often seem like something out of the imagination of Charles Dickens or Alexander Pope.

But many Tories will agree that Sir Jacob was right to say Mr Sunak was not the right man to take on Sir Keir after this defeat.

Britain’s cartoonists will certainly miss Sir Jacob. His Labour vanquisher, Dan Norris, is nowhere near as eccentric.

Former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon. Picture: Getty Images

Scottish Nationalists

Scotland’s governing Nationalists lost most of their Westminster seats on Friday, and their dream of independence from England is all but dead for a generation.

Labour regained its place as Scotland’s No.1 party after a decade in the wilderness with at least 37 seats to the SNP’s paltry eight seats. Scotland’s First Minister, John Swinney, will be worried about the next Scottish parliament elections in 2026.

Former SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon could only dream of the 56 Westminster seats she won in 2015 as she watched the exit polls live on air on Friday.

The former Scotland first minister – who lost power over an ­internal tussle over her radical bill to loosen regulations over gender transition and her failure to advance a second secession referendum – also admitted on air that many in her party would blame her for this loss.

While the Nationalists fought among themselves, Scottish Labour focused on the cost-of-living crisis neither the Tories nor the SNP rulers in Edinburgh’s provincial parliament managed to fix.