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6 de fev. de 2024 · Liz Truss. Conservative Party. Tuesday 6 February 2024, 6:11pm. ITV News Political Correspondent Shehab Khan sets out what the formation of the PopCons means for Rishi Sunak's government....
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Born in Oxford, to Priscilla Mary Truss, a nurse, and John Kenneth, a professor of maths. Truss has described both parents as being “to the left of Labour”.
Attends marches, with her mother, by supporters of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). Truss has recalled a protest at the Faslane nuclear submarine base in Scotland, where the chant was “Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, out, out, out”.
After her early education, which included time living in Paisley, Leeds and Canada, she attends Oxford University, where she reads philosophy, politics and economics and becomes active in student politics with the Liberal Democrats.
Makes a political debut at the Liberal Democrat conference where she delivers an impassioned speech backing a motion calling for the abolition of the monarchy. She later joins the Conservative party, attending Tory conference in 1997. By now she is working for Shell and qualifies as an accountant in 1999.
Marries fellow accountant Hugh O’Leary – with whom she later has two children – in the same year as she is employed by Cable & Wireless, where she rises to become economic director.
Becomes the full-time deputy director of the right-of-centre thinktank Reform. Her work includes co-authoring a 2009 paper promoting government spending cuts including slashing doctors’ pay and calling for patients to be charged to see their GP.
After being put on David Cameron’s “A-list” of priority candidates backed by his leadership in a drive to modernise the party, Truss survives an attempt by Conservative activists in Norfolk to deselect her after it emerges that she had an affair with a Tory MP five years previously.
After a number of failed bids to win council seats and safe Labour constituencies, she finally enters parliament as Tory MP for rural South West Norfolk. Two years later she becomes an education minister in the Tory-Lib Dem coalition.
Gives one of her more unforgettable conference addresses in her first cabinet post as environment secretary, bemusing listeners with a speech full of pregnant pauses, stares and a claim that Britain importing two-thirds of its cheese was “a disgrace”.
Campaigning for the remain side before the referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union, Truss writes an article for the Sun in which she warns that Brexit would be “a triple tragedy – more rules, more forms and more delays when selling to the EU”.
19 de set. de 2023 · For every time Truss appears before the nation she may just succeed in making a future election defeat for the Conservatives more likely. And in this eventuality, the former PM will struggle to be taken seriously by a party that never really embraced her mode of politics in the first place. Liz Truss.
6 de fev. de 2024 · LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Taking aim at the judiciary, quangos, climate activists, bureaucrats and internationalists, a group of right-wing Conservatives offered a solution to their ailing...
5 de set. de 2022 · Liz Truss: new UK PM faces huge challenges. She pledged to deliver a 'bold plan to cut taxes and grow our economy' after being named the new Conservative leader. Liz Truss arriving at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London on Monday, where she was declared the winner of the Conservative Party leadership race with Rishi Sunak (centre). AP.
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5 de out. de 2022 · UK politics. Add to myFT. ‘Seeking hope’: MPs reflect on Liz Truss’s calamitous Tory conference. Some Conservatives fear the party is heading for defeat at the next election as new PM reels...
13 de nov. de 2023 · Voters discipline parties when they screw up. When Liz Truss’s chaotic 49-day tenure as prime minister ended, so did the Conservatives’ chances in the election.
