Former chair of education committee loses seat in parliament

Neil Carmichael, previous chair of the education select committee, has lost his seat in parliament to his Labour opponent David Drew.

Carmichael’s defeat in his former constituency of Stroud, Gloucestershire, was one of several losses during a difficult night for the Conservative party, during which the education secretary Justine Greening managed to keep her seat.

Carmichael lost to the former Labour MP and teacher by almost 700 votes, while Greening’s majority in her south London seat of Putney was cut from more than 10,000 to less than 2,000.

In addition to this, it has been revealed that Edward Timpson, children’s minister, has lost his seat in Crewe and Nantwich to Labour Candidate Laura Smith by 48 votes.

Former deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg lost his Sheffield Hallam seat to Labour as well as Conservative MP Philip Davies who has campaigned against universal sex education.

Despite this, the former shadow education secretary Lucy Powell saw her majority in Manchester Central increase and Mike Kane, the shadow schools minister also kept his seat.