Big Name Tory MPs out of a job: how many will try to get back and what would you do

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There are a lot of big/well known names who have lost their seats out of a job

Liz Truss, ex pm obviously
Michael Fabricant, him of the crazy blond wig, First Dates celeb and rentaquote Johnson supporter.
Jacob Rees -Mogg - Victorian napper
Robert Buckland, former justice secretary

eight cabinet ministers had lost their seats, including:

1. Penny Mordaunt, leader of the Commons
2. Alex Chalk, the justice secretary
3. Grant Shapps, the defence secretary
4. Gillian Keegan, the education secretary
5. David TC Davies, the Welsh secretary
6. Michelle Donelan, the science secretary
7. Lucy Frazer, the culture secretary
8. Mark Harper, the transport secretary

A further four senior ministers who attend cabinet were also ousted

1. Johnny Mercer, the veterans minister
2. Simon Hart, the chief whip
3. Victoria Prentis, the attorney general
4. Michael Tomlinson, illegal immigration minister

Some of them like Buckland who was a barrister have a career to go back to. Some like Jacob Rees-Mogg have businesses and assets that means they don't need it.

But how many of them do you think will be scrambling to find a new seat and hoping for a by-election?
how many of them do you think will be loyal to their constituency and want to stand again in the same place in 5 years?
How many of them will just chuck in the towel and do something new?
How many of them will chuck in the towel and go back to their old job?

What would you do do you think?

I know its what they sign up for but its a brutal world politics.

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truss has her ex-pm money for life and does the lecture circuit around the world. Mogg has his investment business. there will be Consultancies, possible radio/tv work. For those who get in the HoL its £323 per day attendance so that will keep olives in the cupboard. i dont think any of them will be on zero hours contracts

I know some will be ok but just wondering if the status/MP life means some will be desperate to get back asap

If they’re sensible they’ll go and get some big ‘non-exec’ type job at a corporate paying far more than they’d earn as an MP.

Provably multiple of these roles.

@MidnightPatrol like Nick Clegg who’s now VP of global affairs and communications at Facebook/Meta. That was really weird to hear him being interviewed a couple years ago about FB’s misdeeds. I wonder how they sold that job to him seeing as he was a Lib Dem.