Tory heavyweights lose seats in election wipeout

Former UK prime minister Liz Truss along with 11 cabinet ministers have been ousted in a historic defeat

A slew of UK Conservative big names, including 11 cabinet ministers, have lost their seats in the party’s worst-ever electoral defeat. Britons went to the polls on Thursday to elect 650 members of the House of Commons.

As the results came in, the extent of the Labour Party’s landslide victory became clear, in what former Tory leader...