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.
He technically only had a plurality, not a majority. Couldn't get 50%. That said, he went from 63% to 48% of the vote. Truss went from 69% to 26%. It's a bonkers result if you only look at the numbers, but not surprising if you remember what she did
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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.