One explicit of the casualties in a determined election night for the Conservative Occasion was housing minister Lee Rowley.
He misplaced the seat for North East Derbyshire to Labour candidate Louise Jones who polled 17,591 votes to Rowley’s 15,838.
Rowley 1st took the seat in the 2017 election and retained it in 2019.
The former administration marketing consultant was appointed housing minister in November 2023, altering Rachel Maclean who was sacked as portion of a cabinet reshuffle.
Maclean additionally shed her seat previous night, Redditch in Worcestershire, to Labour’s Chris Bloore – who gained with a overwhelming majority of 789 votes.
In all chance probably the most higher-profile previous housing minister to be ousted in the 2024 election was Grant Shapps. He was drafted in by the Cameron–Clegg coalition in 2010 to supply as Minister of Condition for Housing and Neighborhood Federal authorities.
Defence secretary forward of the 2024 election, Shapps misplaced his Welwyn Hatfield seat to Labour.
