Meet the 47 Years Old New UK Prime Minister: Liz Truss
- Truss will be the third UK female Prime Minister following Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May.
Liz Truss before emergence as Tory leader and British Prime Minister, was UK’s Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since 2021 and Minister for Women and Equalities since 2019.
Truss was active in the Liberal Democrats. She was president of Oxford University Liberal Democrats and a member of the national executive committee of Liberal Democrat Youth and Students.
She read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Merton College, Oxford, graduating in 1996.
Under David Cameron as Conservative leader, Truss was added to the party’s ‘A List’.
On September 4, 2012, Truss was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Education, with responsibility for childcare and early learning, assessment, qualifications and curriculum reform, behaviour and attendance, and school food review.
In a July 15, 2014 cabinet reshuffle, Truss was appointed Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, replacing Owen Paterson.
On July 14, 2016, Truss was appointed as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor in Theresa May’s first ministry. She became the first woman to hold either position and the first female Lord Chancellor in the thousand-year history of the office.
On June 11, 2017, following the general election, she was moved to the position of Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
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She was promoted by Boris Johnson to the position of Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade. Following the resignation of Amber Rudd, Truss was additionally appointed Minister for Women and Equalities.