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Who is Liz Truss?

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  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.
Born on July 26, 1975, in Oxford to an emeritus professor of pure mathematics (father) and a Latin teacher (mother), Truss married Hugh O'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.
 
Journey into politics
 
Truss, 47, began her professional career in 1999 as a Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA), following which she worked at Cable & 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.
 
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' 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.
 
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.
 
Becoming Prime Minister
 
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.
 
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.
 
Truss has promised to act quickly, saying she will devise a plan to tackle rising energy bills and secure future fuel supplies.
 
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.

Latest Updates on Liz Truss

Just 59% of voters who backed the Conservatives under Boris Johnson at the 2019 election are sticking with the party under Sunak, the report found

Updated On: 04 Dec 2023 | 8:11 PM IST

It's a regime that is increasingly authoritarian at home and assertive abroad and has a desire to reshape the world order," Sunak told reporters on his way to the US Sunday

Updated On: 13 Mar 2023 | 7:44 AM IST

Truss also there was a need to fast-track Ukraine's NATO membership

Updated On: 24 Feb 2023 | 12:29 PM IST

Britain's former prime minister Liz Truss, who has the ignominy of being the country's shortest serving in the top job at just 49 days, made a dramatic attempt at a comeback to frontline politics

Updated On: 05 Feb 2023 | 7:04 PM IST

Britain is expected to be the only major industrialised country to see its economy shrink this year after the impact of Liz Truss' brief premiership prompted a sharp growth downgrade from IMF

Updated On: 31 Jan 2023 | 12:13 PM IST

Nearly half (47 per cent) say they like Rishi Sunak, against two in five (41 per cent) who dislike him. This makes Sunak more liked than Boris Johnson earlier this year

Updated On: 25 Nov 2022 | 7:28 PM IST

The new PM faces unenviable challenges ahead, but he is a testament to the progress Britain has made towards becoming a multi-racial society

Updated On: 10 Nov 2022 | 1:12 AM IST

It's an approach that ought to suit Sunak, Britain's youngest prime minister in more than two centuries, who came to politics via a career in finance and an MBA from Standford in California

Updated On: 06 Nov 2022 | 11:17 AM IST

The rate increase will likely be the Bank of England's eighth in a row and biggest since 1992

Updated On: 03 Nov 2022 | 5:48 PM IST

"They agreed on the principle that those with the broadest shoulders should be asked to bear the greatest burden," the Treasury said

Updated On: 01 Nov 2022 | 6:53 AM IST

Sunak has to govern a fractious and self-indulgent mob, which has resulted from a near-total breakdown of authority of all sorts

Updated On: 27 Oct 2022 | 9:52 AM IST

Britain's outgoing Prime Minister Liz Truss said that her govt had acted "urgently and decisively" to help hard-working families and provided assistance to thousands of businesses to avoid bankruptcy

Updated On: 25 Oct 2022 | 3:57 PM IST

Just seven weeks after Truss traveled to meet Queen Elizabeth II to become premier, Sunak will meet King Charles III on Tuesday to formally replace her

Updated On: 25 Oct 2022 | 7:38 AM IST

With Boris Johnson's party gate scandal and Liz Truss's tax cuts debacle, Sunak is the third prime minister in the last seven months

Updated On: 24 Oct 2022 | 7:59 PM IST

Sunak will replace Liz Truss, who served as Britain's shortest-serving prime minister

Updated On: 24 Oct 2022 | 7:35 PM IST

Govts should respect fiscal constraints as once confidence is lost in a country's institutions and political maturity, it cannot be easily regained

Updated On: 23 Oct 2022 | 10:16 PM IST

Truss began as prime minister in September, proposing a radical agenda that she claimed was designed to kick start economic growth

Updated On: 23 Oct 2022 | 10:07 AM IST

Merely three months after he was ousted from power, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson landed in Britain on Saturday from a Caribbean holiday to launch a formal bid for the leadership

Updated On: 22 Oct 2022 | 6:56 PM IST

Observers of Britain's governing structure can be forgiven for scratching their heads in recent weeks as they watch the country reel through a succession of prime ministers without holding an election

Updated On: 22 Oct 2022 | 6:34 PM IST

Rishi Sunak's supporters claimed on Saturday that the Indian-origin former chancellor has hit the threshold of 100 members of Parliament required to make it to the shortlist for the race

Updated On: 22 Oct 2022 | 3:53 PM IST