The personal and political journey of the UK's shortest-serving prime minister.
Married to accountant Hugh O'Leary with two teenage daughtersBorn in Oxford in 1975, Ms Truss has described her father, a mathematics professor, and her mother, a nurse, as "left-wing".
One Roundhay school mate, who did not want to be named, told the BBC: "It was a really good school, really supportive teachers. Quite a lot of us have gone on to good universities and good careers.""She was quite studious, serious," he says, with a "heavy social conscience" and part of a group that were into environmentalism.
At the party's 1994 conference, she spoke in favour of abolishing the monarchy, telling delegates in Brighton: "We Liberal Democrats believe in opportunity for all. We do not believe people are born to rule."Her conversion to conservatism, towards the end of her time at Oxford, is said to have shocked her left-leaning parents, but for Mark Littlewood, a fellow Oxford Lib Dem, it was a natural progression.
After graduating from Oxford she worked as an accountant for Shell, and Cable & Wireless, and married fellow accountant Hugh O'Leary in 2000. The couple have two daughters.
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