Liz Truss

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Liz Truss is a British politician, who became the 56th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in September 2022. Earlier, she held many key positions in the UK government, including Foreign Secretary, a post that she held from 2021 to 2022. On 20 October 2022, she resigned as Prime Minister after Tory MPs rebelled in a chaotic parliamentary vote. [13]BBC.She belongs to a Christian family in England. At the age of 4, she moved to Scotland with her parents. Everyone at home used to call her by her middle name Elizabeth when she was a child. [14]YOU A childhood photo of Liz at the age of 12.While living in Scotland, her parents took her to an anti-nuclear and anti-Thatcher protest when she was a kid. Every protestor chanted a particular slogan while marching against the Tory government. Liz also copied them and chanted the slogan in a Scottish accent. In an interview, she recalled this and said, I remember standing in the Paisley piazza and we were chanting that slogan and other slogans. It was in Scottish so it was ‘Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, oot, oot, oot.’” [15]Daily Record.When she attended Merton college in England, she became a supporter of Liberal Democrats. She was the president of Oxford University Liberal Democrats and became a member of the National Executive Committee of Liberal Democrat Youth and Students. She gave a speech at the 1994 Liberal Democrat Federal Conference. She stood up in the support of the legalisation of cannabis and the abolition of the monarchy.Liz began to work in the corporate sector in 1996. She worked at the British oil and gas company Shell for 4 years till 2000. She became a certified Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA) in 1999. She joined a British telecommunications company, Cable & Wireless, in 2000. She became the economic director of the company before she left it in 2005. She became the full-time deputy director of a research trust called Reform in 2008. At Reform, she co-authored several reports including The Value of Mathematics and A New Level.She met her husband, Hugh O’Leary, for the first time at the Conservative party Conference in 1997, who was also her fellow accountant.According to sources, Liz had an 18-month-long relationship with former Tory MP Mark Field. They dated each other from January 2004 to June 2005. After the news of their relationship got public, Mark Field went through a divorce in 2006 after a marriage of 12 years. However, this wasn’t the case with Liz as she saved her marriage from divorce. [16]Express.Liz became the chairperson of the Lewisham Deptford Conservative Association in 1998. In 2006, she became the councillor for Eltham South in Greenwich, but she resigned from the position before the end of her term, which was about to take place in 2010.In 2009, Liz was selected for the South West Norfolk seat by members of the constituency Conservative Association. In the first round of elections, she won 50% of the votes; however, when the news about Liz and Conservative MP Mark Field’s affair surfaced, her selection for the post was opposed by some members of the constituency association. Three weeks later, at a general meeting of the association’s members, Liz managed to save her MP seat; she secured 132 votes, while her opponents secured only 37 votes.In 2011, she successfully persuaded the government for converting the A11 trunk road into a dual carriageway. In an interview, she said, My constituents were delighted to hear in the autumn Comprehensive Spending Review that the final stretch of the A11 was to be dualled. This will have a magnificent impact on economic growth in the county and local businesses. Yet we are still to hear exactly when this major work will take place.” [17]Eastern Daily Press.