Five things we have learned from the election results

1. There is no such thing as a safe seat. Michael Fabricant was the biggest scalp in the region losing his seat after 32 years, but the defeat of Amanda Milling in Cannock Chase – but the close shaves for Mark Pritchard in The Wrekin and Mark Garnier in Wyre Forest suggest that nowhere is off limits.

2. The bigger they come, the harder they fall. Eight serving cabinet ministers have so far lost their seats, a record for any election. Liz Truss lost her South West Norfolk seat just 20 months after resigning as Prime Minister, and Jacob Rees-Mogg was another big name to fall. But it is not only the Tory big beasts who are licking their wounds – Labour shadow ministers Jonathan Ashworth and Thangam Debbonaire are also among the casualties.