Former Tory MP who lost his seat during Thursday night's bloodbath quits the party and says it has 'no chance of ever being electable again'

A former Tory minister who lost his seat in the House of Commons during Thursday night's general election bloodbath has resigned from the party.

Marcus Fysh said the Tories have 'no chance of ever being electable again with its current non-Conservative parliamentary composition' as he quit as a member.

The 53-year-old, who was junior trade minister when Liz Truss was prime minister, vowed to 'move on', adding: 'Let's do something else.'

Mr Fysh had been MP for Yeovil since 2015 until Rishi Sunak called the general election, in which he lost his Somerset constituency to the Liberal Democrats.

The Tories' worse-ever defeat has seen bitter recriminations within the party's ranks, as various factions battle for control following Mr Sunak's pledge to resign as leader.

In a sign of those deep splits, Mr Fysh was told he's a 'total' idiot by another former Conservative MP. 

Nicholas Soames, the grandson of Winston Churchill who was MP for Mid Sussex from 1997 to 2019, hit out at Mr Fysh's public resignation.

He wrote on X: 'I really don't think anyone will notice. The total idiot.' But Mr Fysh snapped back: 'Mate you are a total weapon.'

As the post-mortem into the Tories' general election defeat continued, former home secretary Suella Braveman was scathing of Mr Sunak's 'idiotic strategy'.

In an article in the Sunday Telegraph, she wrote: 'People didn't choose Labour, they rejected us. That is the simple truth.

'Labour polled three million fewer votes than they did under Jeremy Corbyn in 2017.  Labour's Ming-vase strategy of 'don't move, don't speak, don't blink' worked.

'But only because it faced our idiotic strategy of intermittently and inconsistently making 'Tory Right' noises – which disintegrated when set against our liberal Conservative record.

'I say again, whatever some of my colleagues think, the voters aren't mugs: they saw what we did in office and ignored what we insincerely said while campaigning.'

Ms Braverman pointed to 'high taxes' and 'high immigration' as among the Conservatives' broken promises.