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"Lots of us went because we felt impotent, that we couldn't do anything about what's happening in Gaza," she told the BBC soon after landing back home.

At the time she said the Conservatives were "impotent" and "no longer align with her values or ideology".

There is, however, an added, if intangible, cost to Proposition 50: Effectively disenfranchising millions of conservative and Republican-leaning Californians, who already feel as though they’re ignored and politically impotent.

Texas Democrats’ stunts drew national media attention, but they were impotent in the end precisely because the party holds no power in the Lone Star State.

A former Conservative MP has quit the party, branding it "impotent", and wants to stand in next May's Senedd election.