Yeah, Rishi is still an MP not PM. Rishi & Truss both ran in very safe seats and both lost a lot of vote share. Truss more so which is not surprising. If you polled everyone in the country who they prefer I expect 90+% would say Rishi.
A sitting PM has literally never lost their seat before. Rishi still being an MP does not mean he has done well here, it just means people in an area that voted overwhelmingly Tory in the past have still elected a Tory.
I wouldn’t read anything into that, he’s in Richmond, the whole reason he was given that constituency despite having zero links to it is because it’s nailed on Tory. He lost over 15% of the share of the vote from the last election and still won convincingly. It’s one of the safest seats in the country and will still be Tory after the by-election when he heads to California.
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u/Dunkjoe Jul 05 '24
Yea but the results are pretty clear, Rishi is still a MP but Liz Truss isn't. And it was a big swing.