Even when the other candidates were told to make their way on stage for the official announcement that Labour’s Terry Jermy had spectacularly overturned Truss’s previous majority of 26,000 to win the seat of South West Norfolk, the former prime minister was still not there.
‘Even diehard Conservatives would not vote for her’: how Liz Truss tried to remake herself after her spectacular election defeat Booted out of her Norfolk constituency in July’s general election, the former PM is still wildly ambitious.
By 5am on 5 July, it was clear to the hundreds of candidates, officials, activists and journalists gathered in the Lynnsport leisure centre in King’s Lynn for election night that the former prime minister Liz Truss had lost her parliamentary seat.
When she did eventually walk in, the slow hand-clap that greeted her arrival and her refusal to make a concession speech from the stage provided the defining television moment of this year’s election.
She says she had been having an early breakfast at McDonald’s with her daughters before getting delayed on her way to the count by a freight train at a level crossing.
