Jacob Rees-Mogg loses Somerset seat

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Former cabinet minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg loses his seat of North East Somerset and Hanham to Labour’s Dan Norris. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Dan Norris, Labour Party, 20,739.

00:05APPLAUSE

00:11Jacob William Rees-Mogg, Conservative Party candidate, 15,420.

00:17APPLAUSE

00:23Dina Romero, Liberal Democrats, 3,878.

00:27And I hereby declare that Dan Norris is duly elected to serve as a Member of Parliament

00:31for North East Somerset and Hanham constituency.

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00:43Thank you everybody, thank you for staying up so late.

00:45It's been a very long count and a very long evening.

00:48I want to start by thanking of course Keir Starmer,

00:51who has transformed the Labour Party since our terrible result in 2019,

00:56to bring us to this fantastic result this evening.

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01:01May I begin by giving my warmest congratulations to Dan Norris,

01:05who has been a servant of North East Somerset or Wansdyke, as it then was, before,

01:10and I'm sure will be a devoted constituency MP in future.

01:15And congratulate Sir Keir Starmer, who has led his party to what seems to be an historic victory,

01:21and this is the great virtue of our democracy.

01:24So I congratulate both of them.

01:27And one final thought, from Caractacus Potts,

01:31and that is, from the ashes of disaster, grow the roses of success.

01:35So thank you very much to everybody, and goodnight.

01:38APPLAUSE

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