Lettuce Liz Truss loses seat in upset virtually as shameful as dropping to vegetable
Disastrous former Prime Minister Liz Truss has lost her safe seat in the General Election.
Truss, who was in number 10 for just 49 days where she was famously outlasted by the Daily Star Lettuce, was ousted from her South West Norfolk seat. Labour’s Terry Jermy overturned a huge majority of 26,195 from the last election.
It caps a disastrous two years for the ex-PM, but nothing is impossible when you’ve been beaten by a leaf vegetable.
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Truss has defended her time in the hotseat. She claimed she was “held responsible for decisions that I had no power over”.
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But the Daily Star was so dissatisfied with her premiership that we pitted her against one of Britain’s favourite vegetable to see what would happen first – would she fall on her sword before the vegetable went rotten or vice versa?
In the end it was a comfortable victory for the 60p vegetable, and now her constituents in South Norfolk have also voted with their feet.
It ends 14 years in the seat for Truss and sees the beleaguered Tories lose a seat they have held since 1964.
The result capped a disastrous night for the Conservatives, with Rishi Sunak’s party battering at the polls allowing Labour to form a government for the first time since 2010.
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Truss had previously ruled out plans to run for Tory leader again, just last month saying she wanted to concentrate on “being a backbench MP”.
Ever magnanimous in defeat, Truss had her say on the triumphant lettuce earlier this year.
She suggested only the “London elite” cared about her being beaten by the Daily Star’s vegetable.
Laying into her leafy opponent, she said: “This is just pathetic, you know, point scoring. This is the kind of thing that obsesses the kind of, what I describe as the ‘London elite’. It’s, ‘what do other people think of me, what’s Britain’s international standing’.”
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We’ll try not to stick the boot in on what has been a difficult night for the former Prime Minister, but it’s good to know the lettuce has got the last laugh (again).
The Tories are set for their worst defeat in election history with Labour projected to huge majority.
Outgoing PM Rishi Sunak said: “The British people have delivered a sobering verdict tonight, there is much to learn… and I take responsibility for the loss.”
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