Terry Jermy

Terry Jermy
MP
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for South West Norfolk
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byLiz Truss
Majority630 (1.4%)
Member of Norfolk County Council
for Thetford West
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 August 2013
Preceded byPeter Georgiou
Personal details
Born
Terry James Jermy

August 1985 (age 39)
Thetford, Norfolk, England
Political partyLabour

Terry James Jermy (born August 1985)[1] is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the South West Norfolk constituency since 2024. A member of the Labour Party, he defeated former Prime Minister Liz Truss, who had represented the constituency since 2010.[2]

Jermy was born in Thetford,[3] and is a small business owner,[4] owning the About Thetford magazine since 2013.[5] Before his election to Parliament, Jermy had been a local councillor for Thetford on Breckland District Council and Norfolk County Council.[6][7] He also served as the Mayor of Thetford in the 2016/17 Mayoral year[5] and was the first openly gay mayor of the town.[8]

He was selected as Labour candidate for the South West Norfolk constituency for the 2024 general election, though he received little support from the national Labour Party campaign and had to raise £15,000 for his local campaign via crowdfunding.[9] 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.[10][11] He defeated Truss, who had represented the constituency since 2010, overturning Truss's 26,000 large majority.[2] The Spectator labelled the result a "Portillo moment".[12]

  1. ^ "Terry James JERMY". Companies House. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  2. ^ a b Kris, Johnston (5 July 2024). "Liz Truss ousted as South West Norfolk MP as Labour's Terry Jermy wins vote". Lynn News. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  3. ^ "About Terry". Terry Jermy. 23 January 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  4. ^ Jones, Morgan (29 February 2024). "Meet Terry Jermy, Labour's pick to unseat Liz Truss as ex-PM returns to headlines". LabourList. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  5. ^ a b "Meet The Team | About Thetford". 8 March 2023. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  6. ^ Worden, Clare (18 June 2024). "Liz Truss: 'People surprised to see me on doorstep'". BBC News. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  7. ^ Storey, Eleanor (30 May 2024). "Terry Jermy loses out on chairman role at Breckland Council". Eastern Daily Press.
  8. ^ "Exhibition in Thetford museum out of the closet". Suffolk News. 14 September 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  9. ^ Ben, Riley-Smith (2 July 2024). "The unlikely revolutionary hoping to unseat Liz Truss". The Telegraph. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  10. ^ "South West Norfolk - General election results 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
  11. ^ Kirk, Ashley; Clark, Alex; García, Carmen Aguilar; Duncan, Pamela (26 July 2024). "Twelve charts that show how Labour won by a landslide". the Guardian. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
  12. ^ Steerpike (5 July 2024). "Watch: Liz Truss loses her seat". The Spectator. Retrieved 5 July 2024.