The London International Post

The Conservatives have lost a record amount of 251 seats in the history of the political party, leaving them with only 121 seats in Parliament.

The now former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak got re-elected but so many prominent Conservative MPs got voted out which included: Liz Truss, Penny Mordaunt, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Grant Shapps, and Johnny Mercer.

But the writing was on the wall, long before Rishi Sunak surprised the nation and politicians across the United Kingdom.

It was strange to have a General Election on America's Independence Day on 4 July.

Though, when Rishi Sunak lost his leadership challenge to Liz Truss, it was speculated that he would quit politics and go back working in the financial sector and emigrate to California in the United States, with his family.

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However, Liz Truss misread the economy and what the British people wanted, which surprisingly spooked the financial markets both in the UK, US, and across Europe.

The catastrophic backlash sent mortgage and interest rates spiralling out of control and her Premiership and her Cabinet collapsed and became the shortest government in British political history.

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Then Rishi Sunak came in as the runner up contender for the leadership of the Conservatives and became the next British Prime Minister.

Rishi Sunak had the uncomfortable task of tackling the mess of the mini-Budget from the Treasury Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng and very much orchestrated by Liz Truss had caused, which was mostly the spike in mortgage interest rates.

With the devastating aftermath of too many lockdowns caused by the Covid-19 virus, and the record levels of borrowing, interestingly by Rishi Sunak when he was the Treasury Secretary under his predecessor Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, then Putin ordering the illegal invasion of Ukraine, pushing up oil and gas prices as Europe's main manufacturer and powerhouse Germany had to seek alternative sources of oil and gas to power their economy and Europe's as well.

While the United Kingdom was not reliant on Russian oil and gas or even a customer due to past transgressions by Putin with the attempted murder of former FSB double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in one of Britain's major army cities Salisbury, meant that manufacturing costs within the UK was not affected but imported products and goods from Europe increased prices throughout supermarkets, shops, pubs and restaurants up and down the country.

As a result of all of this global upheaval Rishi Sunak had to tackle inflation, which was now running at 11.1%, the highest in 41-years, while trying to alleviate the cost-of-living-crisis, hitting not just the vulnerable, poor, working class but now the Conservatives base the middle class bearing the brunt.

The decision by the Prime Minister and the Governor of the Bank of England was to raise interest rates from 1%, gradually to 5.5% to tackle double-digit inflation rate.

This meant that mortgages, loans and even government borrowing costs all went up and pushed households to the extreme limits of human living endeavours.

It was a long hard road to go down but by the time of the Prime Minister announcing the General Election inflation went down to its normal rate for the United Kingdom of 2.3%.

But with the Prime Minister's five points of promise to judge whether he was to be trusted let alone being successful was on securing the borders by stopping the boats of illegal immigrants crossing the English Channel from France.

Unfortunately, despite looking at the third nation option, which was successful when the Australians towed or deported back illegal immigrants that had crossed the high seas from northern Asian countries, but the Prime Minister chose Rwanda and gave then £130 million to send illegal immigrants to in a bid to break the cycle of people fleeing France for England.

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But multiple court challenges by various human rights groups had a final verdict from the High Court, which deemed deporting illegal immigrants was unlawful and a violation of human rights.

This delayed the Rwanda project showed the anxious British public that this policy the Prime Minister was pushing as a solution to illegal migration was not going to work.

Grow the Economy: As unbelievable as it is, this has been happening, by a small percentage of 0.7%, which is 0.1% more than estimated by the city and markets.

Reduce Debt was always going to be a tough promise pledge because the British economy needs to grow by up 5% each year to be able to reduce income tax and national insurance so that workers can take home more money in their wages, thus meaning more could be spent in retail or in the hospitality sector increasing the GDP and then the Government could stop borrowing money and start to repay the over inflated UK debt mountain, which would take hundreds of years to repay if national debt ever gets paid back.

Cut Waiting Lists was going to set up the Prime Minister to fail as the backlog due to the Covid-19 virus, meant that many thousands of British people died as a result of not being able to see a doctor for an early diagnosis of illnesses such as cancer, or being referred to an NHS hospital for specialist consultation for a more accurate diagnosis.

Overall, Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister was always going to fail because he didn't have a lot of time to turn things around and another crucial factor, which by his time had already sealed his fate, or anyone else for that matter, was the scandal over 'Partygate!'

The British public were furious with Boris Johnson and his Government, including Rishi Sunak both of whom as well as many other politicians and political leaders faced fines for violating the Covid-19 lockdown laws and rules, which had been created by the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

So, now, we are where we are.

The Conservatives once again booted out by the electorate for being in power for too long, and now the baton has been passed and voted in by The Labour Party, with Sir Keir Starmer at the leadership helm.