Truss is renowned for being a political chameleon and has had several different ideologies throughout her life. Truss, raised in a left-wing Oxford family, frequently accompanied her mother to demonstrations for nuclear disarmament and against the conservative Thatcher administration, which introduced sweeping economic changes centered on free markets, privatization and a small state.
She oversaw the student organization of the centrist Liberal Democrats when an Oxford University student promoted the overthrow of the monarchy. She later shifted her support to the Conservative Party, a change she attributed to growing up.
Liz Truss will replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister
Liz Truss will take over as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She was elected the new leader of the Conservative Party after two months of elections. There is only one thing left for Truss to do: fly to Balmoral in Scotland, where the Queen will officially invite him to form a government.
Reports that Truss had an affair with a Conservative politician ten years her senior in the early 2000s jeopardized her political aspirations. However, she was chosen as an MP in 2010 and advanced in the Conservative Party.
As environment secretary in David Cameron’s administration in 2014, Truss became the country’s youngest female cabinet minister. She then worked in the administrations of Theresa May and Johnson.
