Hello and welcome to The Rundal, a podcast from Politics Home.

I'm your host, Alan Tolhurst, and this week, as we're into the deep August recess in Parliament, we're doing something a little different.

Given the colossal new intake, with the largest number of new MPs elected in living memory last month,

we thought it'd be good to profile some of the fresh faces to look out for when the Commons returns next month.

So first up, we have Terry Jeremy, the new Labour MP for South West Norfolk,

who in a night of massive shocks delivered the coup de grace by unseating the former Prime Minister Liz Truss.

As one-by-one cabinet ministers and senior Tories with thumping majorities were defeated

on election night, well after Kirstarm had already held a victory rally and was about to be swept

at the Downing Street, there was one final marmalade to be dropped. Truss, who had a majority of more than

26,000, was ousted by 38-year-old Jeremy from the seat she had held since 2010, bringing to an end a

ignominious few years for the XPM. So to get the inside story of how he did it, what is like

to be the man who defeated trust, how he's finding life in the common so far, and what he plans

to do now is in place. So Terry, thanks for being on the pod. I'll just start with your background. I saw you described

yourself previously as an accidental politician, but you've been in the business for quite a while now.

You joined Norfolk County Council in a by-election back in 2013. By then, you were already on

district council and had been on the town council in

Thetford since 2008 when you were aged just 22. So how did you kind of get into it?

Well, I don't come from a political family. I think that's the first point to make. I got

involved because when I was a teenager, I think I was about 14, 15. I wrote a letter to the local

paper complaining about the state of my local

play area. And there was a particular counsellor at the time who invited me to go along to a council

meeting and, you know, come and tell us what you think about this play area. And at that point,

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