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Lembit Opik has lost his seat  in the Commons to the Conservatives.
The Liberal Democrat was beaten by the Conservatives in the mid Wales constituency of Montgomeryshire.
Lembit Opik was a supporter of the UK NEO Task Force, and the Spaceguard Centre.

Lembit Opik, the Liberal Democrat MP for Montgomeryshire, has been pushing the government to take the issue seriously for two years.
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