IN PHOTOS | Liz Truss: Britain's 'Iron Lady', country's third woman Prime Minister
Truss, Britain’s foreign secretary, was named winner Monday in the contest to replace the scandal-plagued Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and the country's prime minister.
Foreign secretary Liz Truss has defeated Indian-origin former chancellor Rishi Sunak in Conservative Party leadership race to become new British Prime Minister. (Photo |AP)
Truss, Britain’s foreign secretary, was named winner on Monday in the contest to replace the scandal-plagued Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and the country's prime minister. (Photo | AP)
Truss, 47, will become Britain's third female prime minister, after Thatcher, who governed from 1979 to 1990, and Theresa May, who held office from 2016 to 2019. (Photo |AP)
Mary Elizabeth Truss (R), seen here shaking hands with Conservative Party Chairman Andrew Stephenson, was born in Oxford in 1975. She is the daughter of a math professor and a nurse, who took her to anti-nuclear and anti-Thatcher protests as a child. (Photo |AP)
Truss went on to Oxford University, where she studied philosophy, politics, and economics — the degree of choice for many aspiring politicians — and was president of the university branch of the Liberal Democratic Party. (Photo |AP)
Truss has worked for three former prime ministers. She was promoted by David Cameron to environment secretary and worked as justice secretary under Theresa May. She was eventually made foreign secretary by Boris Johnson in 2021. (Photo |AP)
Truss is 47, married, and has two teenage daughters - Frances (16) and Liberty (14). After university, she worked as an accountant for Shell, and Cable & Wireless, and married fellow accountant Hugh O'Leary in 2000. (Photo |AP)
In Britain’s 2016 referendum on whether to leave the European Union, Truss backed the losing “remain” side, though she says she was always a natural euroskeptic. (Photo |AP)
Before Truss entered the leadership contest, many knew her from a speech to the Tory Party Conference in 2014 where she enthusiastically promoted British cheese and pork. (Photo |AP)
Truss beat rival Rishi Sunak, the government’s former Treasury chief, by promising to increase defence spending and cut taxes, while refusing to say how she would address the cost-of-living crisis. (Photo |AP)
Truss paid tribute to Boris Johnson, who will formally hand over power to her tomorrow, saying he 'got Brexit done, crushed Jeremy Corbyn, rolled out the vaccine, and stood up to Vladimir Putin'. (Photo |AP)
