Terry James Jermy is a British politician and journalist who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the

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constituency since

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. A member of the Labour Party, he defeated former Prime Minister

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, who had represented the constituency since 2010. Jermy was born in

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, and is a small business owner, owning the ''About Thetford'' magazine since 2013. Before his election to Parliament, Jermy had been a local councillor for

on Breckland District Council and

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. He also served as the Mayor of Thetford in the 2016/17 Mayoral year and was the first openly gay mayor of the town. He was selected as Labour candidate for the South West Norfolk constituency for the

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, though he received little support from the national Labour Party campaign and had to raise £15,000 for his local campaign via

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. He was elected with just over a quarter of the votes cast (26.7%), which was the lowest winning vote share in the general election. He defeated Truss, who had represented the constituency since 2010, overturning Truss's majority of 26,000. ''

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'' labelled the result a "

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". Upon winning the seat and defeating Truss, Jermy became the first Labour MP from South West Norfolk since Albert Hilton, who lost the seat in the 1964 general election.

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