Marcus Fysh criticised the Conservative Party days after not being re-elected to parliament.
A recently ousted Conservative MP has quit the party, declaring it to be “dead”.
Marcus Fysh, first elected to represent Yeovil in 2015, was a minister in Liz Truss’s cabinet.
He was one of the many Tories who lost their seats in this week’s general election – and it seems he has not taken the Conservatives’ terrible performance well.
On Saturday night, he wrote on X: “I hereby resign from Conservatives.