'I will make sure that we use all the fantastic talents of the Conservative party'
Today, after a leadership battle that has lasted for weeks, Liz Truss was announced as the UK's new prime minister. She received 81,326 votes, to Rishi Sunak's 60,399.
"And I will deliver on the National Health Service. But we all will deliver for our country. And I will make sure that we use all the fantastic talents of the Conservative party, our brilliant members of parliament and peers, our fantastic counsellors, our MSs, our MSPs, all of our councillors and activists and members right across our country."
Life Mary Elizabeth Truss was born in Oxford on July 26, 1975. She has been known by her middle name from an early age, hence officially going by 'Liz'. Ms Truss joined the Conservative Party in 1996, a year before meeting her husband at a party conference. She has previously worked as an accountant for Shell and as an economic director for Cable and Wireless.
As a result of her dad's job, Ms Truss was brought up and educated in the city; attending Roundhay School. She has since been very scathing of the institution - despite its decent Ofsted ratings - as she claims that it "let down" the children that attended. Husband and affair Ms Truss married her husband, accountant Hugh O'Leary, in 2000. The pair first met at a Conservative Party conference in 1997 and they now have two daughters.
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