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The Conservative Party’s official X (formerly Twitter) account appeared to have been deleted or otherwise made unavailable on Monday morning (July 8), soon after the party’s historic defeat at the UK general elections.

@Conservatives, the home of the party on the social media platform returned a message saying “This account doesn’t exist” at the time of writing.

The account appears to be back online at the time of writing.

It is unclear why the account was gone, or otherwise inactive. However, users soon took to the platform to share their reactions.

Some users were quick to make a connection with the party’s recent election upset:

The Conservative Party saw their 14 years in power come to an end on Friday after the Labour Party’s landslide victory at the general election.

The Tories lost over two hundred seats across the country, including in historically safe Conservative-voting areas. Several high profile members of the party lost in their constituencies.

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