Simply waking up? These are a few of the most remarkable incidents that you could have missed.
It marks 668 days since Liz Truss became prime minister. Then, her own MPs fired her after just 44 days.
Her South West Norfolk constituents followed suit on Friday morning—a fate that seldom befalls a former prime minister.
Labour beat Ms. Truss after her majority of almost 23,000 votes evaporated. Only 630 votes were cast in it.
There was slow clapping in the hallway while the other contenders stood on the stage, waiting for her to appear.
Mordant. Shapps. Mercer. Several prominent figures in UK politics in recent times were overthrown on a crushing night for the Conservative Party.
Labour reversed the majority of more than 15,000 that Penny Mordaunt, the leader of the House of Commons and former prime minister candidate, had won in Portsmouth North.
She had thought that her ceremonial sword-wielding role during King Charles III’s coronation, which helped shape her personal image, would help her overcome her party’s national swing, but Labour won by a narrow margin.
Grant Shapps, the defence secretary, served in government positions for the bulk of the 14 years the Conservatives were in power. Early on Friday morning, he observed most of it.
