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British Prime Minister Liz Truss looks on as she speaks to the media at the Empire State building in New York, U.S., September 20, 2022. (Photo: REUTERS/Toby Melville/Pool)

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Mary Elizabeth Truss, also called Liz Truss, is a British politician who has replaced Boris Johnson as the prime minister of the United Kingdom. Truss is the third woman to be elected as the prime minister for the UK, after&nbsp; Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May. She has been serving as the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since 2021 and became the leader of the governing Conservative Party.

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	Born on July 26, 1975, in Oxford to an emeritus professor of pure mathematics (father) and a Latin teacher (mother), Truss married Hugh O&#39;Leary in 2000 and has two daughters. She studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Merton College and graduated in 1996. She attended Roundhay school in the Roundhay area of Leeds.</div>
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	<strong>Journey into politics</strong></div>
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	Truss, 47, began her professional career in 1999 as a Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA), following which she worked at Cable &amp; Wireless, where she rose to the rank of economic director before leaving in 2005. During this time, she also fought two elections and lost. In January 2008, she became the full-time deputy director of Reform.</div>
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	Between 1998 and 2000, Truss served as the chair of the Lewisham Deptford Conservative Association. In 2006, she became a councillor for Eltham South in the Greenwich London Borough Council election. Truss&#39; parliamentary career began in 2010 when she was elected to the House of Commons. Since then, she has held many vital portfolios and made history by being selected as the female Lord Chancellor in 2016.</div>
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	In 2019, she extended her support to outgoing PM Boris Johnson. She was promoted to Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade. However, with a cabinet reshuffle in 2021, Truss was promoted from International Trade Secretary to Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, making her the second woman to take the portfolio after Margaret Beckett.</div>
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	<strong>Becoming Prime Minister</strong></div>
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	After weeks of an often bad-tempered and divisive leadership contest, Truss on September 5, 2022, beat former finance minister Rishi Sunak in a vote of Conservative Party members, winning by 81,326 votes to 60,399.</div>
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	Within minutes of her victory, business leaders from the hospitality sector to manufacturing and chemical industries demanded help with the soaring energy cost and tight labour markets to stop firms from going bust.</div>
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	Truss has promised to act quickly, saying she will devise a plan to tackle rising energy bills and secure future fuel supplies.</div>
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	During her leadership campaign, she signalled she would challenge convention by scrapping tax increases and cutting other levies in a move some economists say would further fuel inflation.</div>

Mary Elizabeth Truss, also called Liz Truss, is a British politician who has replaced Boris Johnson as the prime minister of the United Kingdom. Read to know more about Liz Truss

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