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'Lettuce' Liz Truss loses seat in upset almost as embarrassing as losing to a vegetable

It was a tough night for former PM Liz Truss who lost her safe seat that the Tories had held since 1964, two years since the politician was famously outlasted by the Daily Star lettuce

Liz Truss was famously outlasted by a lettuce(Image: Daily Star)

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.

READ MORE: 'Lettuce' Liz Truss hopes to cling on to her seat - but vegetables keep haunting her

Truss has defended her time in the hotseat. She claimed she was "held responsible for decisions that I had no power over".

Liz Truss lost her safe Tory seat(Image: PA)

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.