Liz Truss: 'People kept telling me I was a Tory – I finally accepted the inevitability'
Liz Truss: ‘Growing up I didn’t meet many Tories’ Credit: Polly Tootal In 1983 in Paisley, near Glasgow, Liz Truss was made to play the role of Margaret Thatcher in a mock election held by her school. She was only eight, but she had already absorbed the vehemently anti-Tory attitudes around her at home, from Left-wing parents, and at school, from Left-wing teachers. ‘I didn’t even vote for myself,’ she says, laughing. Quietly, however, she recalls that she was already ‘fascinated...
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