Truss has been named the new leader of the Conservative Party
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has beaten former chancellor Rishi Sunak to become the new leader of the Conservative Party and the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She is expected to spend the rest of the day finalising her choice for Cabinet and wider ministerial roles and writing her first prime ministerial speech.
The avid Brexiteer, never far from a clash with the European Union, campaigned to Remain, and joined the Conservatives after a brush with the Liberal Democrats. Ms Truss said her father, a mathematics professor, has long struggled to comprehend her move to conservatism, believing, perhaps wishfully, she is a “sleeper working from inside to overthrow the regime”.
At the 1997 Conservative Party conference, she met her future husband, Hugh O’Leary, with whom she has two daughters, now teenagers. She entered Parliament after winning in the 2010 general election with a comfortable majority of more than 13,000 votes.Her candidacy narrowly survived an attempt by traditionalist members of her local Tory association – nicknamed the “Turnip Taliban” over their conservative views and their local agricultural product – to deselect her after it emerged that she had had an affair with married Conservative MP Mark Field.
After clashes with Lib Dem deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg, she was promoted to environment secretary in 2014.It was in the environment brief that she gave an often-ridiculed address to the Tory conference where she discussed her left-to-right conversion in a pantomime manner. Another political conversion was under way, and she shifted from arguing to stay in the EU at the 2016 referendum to become a strong defender of the decision to Leave.She inherited the role of Foreign Secretary in September after Mr Raab was moved aside in the wake of his handling of the Afghanistan crisis.
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