Liz Truss becomes latest Tory casualty in big beast bloodbath: Ex-PM joins Jacob Rees Mogg, Penny Mordaunt, Grant Shapps, Gillian Keegan, Lucy Frazer and Johnny Mercer to be ousted in election

Former prime minister Liz Truss has sensationally lost her seat in the Tory election bloodbath.

Ms Truss, who was premier for just 49 days in 2022, lost her Norfolk South West seat to Labour.

Terry Jermy overturned a 26,195 majority won by Ms Truss in 2019 after Reform and an independent campaign whittled down her support. 

Ms Truss, who led the country from September 6 to October 25 2022 following Boris Johnson's resignation, was the latest Tory heavyweight to suffer at the hands of the electorate on a disastrous night - and morning - for the party.

On a humiliating night for Rishi Sunak's party, some of the Conservatives' biggest names - including a record number of frontbenchers - lost their seats as Labour stormed to an historic landslide win.

Among the senior Tories to be ousted in a brutal election night bloodbath was Mr Rees-Mogg who lost his Somerset North East & Hanham seat to Labour's Dan Norris by more than 5,000 votes.

And glum-looking Defence Secretary Grant Shapps suffered a 'Portillo Moment' as he was defeated by Labour in Welwyn Hatfield by around 3,000 votes.

It marks one of the biggest losses of the night, after the UK's shortest serving PM was elected in 2019 with 69 percent of the vote, with a majority of more than 50 percent.

But her popularity nosedived after her devastating mini-budget with Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng which led to the plunge of the pound and had widespread economic impacts.

Thousands of people saw steep mortgage rises following the budget, which contained millions of pounds worth of unfunded tax cuts.

Her disappearance from the Commons underlines the scale of Rishi Sunak's loss, which is the worst ever electoral performance for the Conservatives.