She idolised Thatcher, now Liz Truss is on the cusp of becoming Britain's next PM
Ask recently if her parents would even vote for her in a general election, Liz Truss replied: “Well, I think my mum will, I’m not sure about my dad.”
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Ask recently if her parents would even vote for her in a general election, Liz Truss replied: “Well, I think my mum will, I’m not sure about my dad.”
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Liz Truss, in full Mary Elizabeth Truss, (born July 26, 1975, Oxford, England), British Conservative politician who became the second woman ever to serve as U.K. foreign secretary (2021– ). Truss, who goes by her middle name, Elizabeth, rather than her given first name, Mary, was the child of left-leaning parents. Her father was a professor of mathematics at the University of Leeds and her mother was a nurse, a teacher, and a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament activist. That Truss was taken as a child to demonstrations against the policies of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and chan...
Sometimes this column has a guest reviewer: a dining companion. It was Liz Truss in late summer 2011, for the now long closed Bistro du Vin in Dean Street: a Hotel du Vin without a hotel, and so bereft. It had a bookshelf on which all the books were painted neon, and they flew out in lumps when you ...
We look at the shapeshifting Tory leadership candidate who loves to promote Thatcher comparisons