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5 Jul 2024

Inside the night Rees-Mogg lost his seat

One of the biggest upsets of the night was in Somerset, where the former Brexit minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg lost his seat in what was immediately dubbed ‘Mogg-xit’.

The former MP said farewell in typical style with a quote from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Warning: this report contains flash photography.