Episode 1905
Liz Truss
Thu, 2022-Jul-21 02:06 UTC
Length - 4:12
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With 273,686 views on Wednesday, 20 July 2022 our article of the day is Liz Truss.
Mary Elizabeth Truss (born 26 July 1975) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk since 2010. She has served as Foreign Secretary since 2021 and Minister for Women and Equalities since 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, she has served in various cabinet positions under Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson.
Truss was an undergraduate at Merton College, Oxford, where she was President of Oxford University Liberal Democrats. She graduated in 1996 and subsequently joined the Conservative Party. She worked at Shell and Cable & Wireless, before becoming deputy director at the think tank Reform. Truss became a member of parliament at the 2010 general election. As a backbencher, she called for reform in several policy areas including childcare, maths education and the economy. She founded the Free Enterprise Group of Conservative MPs and wrote or co-wrote a number of papers and books, including After the Coalition (2011) and Britannia Unchained (2012).
Truss served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Childcare and Education from 2012 to 2014, before being appointed to the Cabinet by Prime Minister David Cameron as Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the 2014 cabinet reshuffle. Though she was a prominent supporter of the unsuccessful Britain Stronger in Europe campaign for the UK to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum, she came to support Brexit after the result. After Cameron resigned in July 2016, Truss was appointed Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor by Theresa May, becoming the first female Lord Chancellor in the 1,000-year history of the office (excluding Eleanor of Provence in 1253). Following the 2017 general election, Truss was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury. After May resigned in 2019, Truss supported Boris Johnson's successful bid to become Conservative leader. When he became Prime Minister, he appointed Truss as Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade. He then made her Foreign Secretary in 2021, replacing Dominic Raab. Truss was appointed the government's chief negotiator with the European Union and UK chair of the EU–UK Partnership Council on 19 December 2021, succeeding Lord Frost. On 10 July 2022, Truss announced her intention to run in the Conservative Party leadership election to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. On 20 July, she polled second amongst Conservative MPs and is expected to face a postal vote of party members against Rishi Sunak with the results to be announced on 5 September.
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