Liz Truss, the former Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, will be the UK’s new prime minister after beating Rishi Sunak in the race to lead the Conservative Party.
Mary Elizabeth Truss was born 26 July 1975. She is a British politician who is the leader of the Conservative Party and expected to be appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by the Queen in due course.
She is currently serving as the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since 2021 and Minister for Women and Equalities since 2019.
A member of the Conservative Party, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk since 2010. She has served in various Cabinet positions under Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson.
Truss won the Conservative Party leadership election on 5 September 2022, beating her rival Rishi Sunak. She is due to be appointed Prime Minister on 6 September, and will be the third woman to serve in that position.
Truss attended Merton College, Oxford, and was President of Oxford University Liberal Democrats.
In 1996, she both graduated and joined the Conservative Party. She worked at Shell and Cable & Wireless, and was deputy director of the think tank Reform. Truss was elected for South West Norfolk at the 2010 general election.
As a backbencher, she called for reform in several policy areas including childcare, mathematics education and the economy. She founded the Free Enterprise Group of Conservative MPs and wrote or co-wrote a number of papers and books, including After the Coalition (2011) and Britannia Unchained (2012).
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