Liz Truss

About

British politician who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in September 2022 but later resigned in October 2022. She previously served as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Affairs and as Minister for Women and Equalities. She became a Member of Parliament (MP) in 2010, and served in various cabinet positions under David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson. 

Before Fame

She graduated from Merton College, Oxford in 1996, and joined the Conservative party that year. She worked for Shell and Cable & Wireless before being elected to House of Commons in 2010.

Trivia

After then-PM Boris Johnson appointed Truss Foreign Secretary in September 2021, a review of the government's official account on the photo-sharing platform Flickr revealed that since the day she had taken office, more than 700 pictures had been uploaded featuring an image of her, an average of more than four and a half a day, or about one photograph for every five hours on the job.

Family Life

Her full name is Mary Elizabeth Truss, but she has gone by Elizabeth since she was young. Her family moved to Scotland when she was four. She also spent a year in Canada. Her father is an emeritus professor of pure mathematics at the University of Leeds. Her mother was a nurse, teacher, and member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. They were both slightly left of center, politically. When she ran for Parliament as a Conservative, her mother campaigned for her but her father declined. In 2000, she married Hugh O'Leary, an accountant whom she first met at the 1997 Conservative Party Conference. They have two daughters.

Associated With

She was an ardent advocate of Brexit and a fan of former PM Margaret Thatcher. She has the support of British politician Jacob Rees-Mogg and many others in the Conservative party.