Former prime minister Liz Truss has lost her seat in Norfolk South West

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Liz Truss has suffered a humiliating election defeat as the former Tory party leader lost her South West Norfolk seat.Ms Truss secured 11,217 votes in her South West Norfolk constituency, behind the 11,847 votes for Labour candidate Terry Jermy.

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00:00Dhuvala Pallavi, Green Party, 1,838.

00:09Douglas Lorraine, Communist Party of Britain, 77.

00:15Jeremy Terry, Labour Party, 11,847.

00:23Mackenzie Tobias, Reform UK, 9,958.

00:31Earl Elvis, Official Monster Raving Loony Party, 338.

00:40Ratcliffe Josie, Liberal Democrats, 2,618.

00:47Trush Liz, Conservative Party candidate, 11,217.

00:54I think she has lost.

00:56The number of ballot papers rejected is 139.

01:02This is not one that had been necessarily on the radar.

01:06We knew there would be a lot of tactical voting, as Beth and I

01:10talked about earlier in the programme.

01:12I think that will be a shock to her.

01:14I think in terms of the people that supported her very brief

01:18premiership, a lot of whom continued to support her afterwards,

01:21thought there was a potential way back for her.

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