Former prime minister Liz Truss has been re-selected to fight to retain her South West Norfolk parliamentary seat at the next general election.

Ms Truss was re-selected by South West Norfolk Conservative Association to be their candidate at the next general election at a meeting in Swaffham on Tuesday (February 21) night.

It means she will fight to keep the seat she has held for 13 years when the next general election is called.

She said, in a tweet: "Delighted to have been re-selected as Conservative candidate for South West Norfolk.

"Thanks to my local association for their ongoing support and I look forward in due course to us fighting a fifth general election together."

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Ms Truss's brief stint as prime minister saw her resign after just 44 days in office - the shortest premiership in British history.

During her spell at 10 Downing Street, the pound tumbled, while government borrowing costs soared.

 

She sacked her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng following a disastrous mini-budget, but, in recent interviews, Ms Truss has said she still believed her approach to driving growth was the right one.

She has held the South West Norfolk seat, previously held by Christopher Fraser, since 2010, having seen off a rebellion against her selection by the so-called Turnip Taliban.

That was a group within the South West Norfolk Conservative Association who were unhappy Conservative HQ had not informed them that she had had an affair with then Tory MP Mark Field.

Ms Truss was backed by a 132-37 margin and initially won the seat with a majority of 13,140. By 2019, she had almost doubled it to 26,195.

So far, the only one of Norfolk's MPs who will not be standing at the next election is Conservative Norwich North MP Chloe Smith.