99 Facts About Elizabeth Truss

Mary Elizabeth Truss was born on 26 July 1975 and is a British politician who is the current prime minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Conservative Party.

Elizabeth Truss's previously held various Cabinet offices under prime ministers David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, most recently as foreign secretary from 2021 to 2022.

Elizabeth Truss has been Member of Parliament for South West Norfolk since 2010.

Elizabeth Truss attended Merton College, Oxford and was the president of Oxford University Liberal Democrats.

Elizabeth Truss's founded the Free Enterprise Group of Conservative MPs and wrote or co-wrote a number of papers and books, including After the Coalition and Britannia Unchained .

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Elizabeth Truss served as parliamentary under-secretary of state for childcare and education from 2012 to 2014, before Cameron appointed her secretary of state for the environment, food and rural affairs in the 2014 cabinet reshuffle.

Elizabeth Truss's took on the additional role of minister for women and equalities in September 2019.

Elizabeth Truss won the 2022 Conservative Party leadership election following Johnson's resignation amid a government crisis.

Elizabeth Truss's became prime minister amid an ongoing cost of living crisis and an energy supply crisis, in response to which her government implemented an Energy Price Guarantee limiting energy prices for households, businesses and public sector organisations, and announced various tax cuts in a mini-budget.

Mary Elizabeth Truss was born on 26 July 1975 in Oxford, England, to John Truss and Priscilla Truss .

Elizabeth Truss's has three younger brothers, Chris, Patrick and Francis.

Elizabeth Truss has described her parents as being "to the left of Labour"; her mother was a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

When Elizabeth Truss later stood for election to Parliament as a Conservative, her mother agreed to campaign for her, while her father declined to do so.

Elizabeth Truss's parents divorced in 2003; at the 2004 Leeds City Council election, her mother unsuccessfully stood for election as a Liberal Democrat.

Elizabeth Truss's then attended Roundhay School, a comprehensive school in the Roundhay area of Leeds, which she later said had "let down" children, a claim disputed by others.

Elizabeth Truss has praised the coherent curriculum and the Canadian attitude that it was "really good to be top of the class", which she contrasts to her education at Roundhay School.

Elizabeth Truss was remembered by adolescent classmates as a studious girl with "geeky" friends.

Elizabeth Truss's reportedly had an interest in social issues such as homelessness.

Elizabeth Truss's read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Merton College, Oxford, graduating in 1996.

Elizabeth Truss's was president of Oxford University Liberal Democrats and a member of the national executive committee of Liberal Democrat Youth and Students .

From 1996 to 2000, Elizabeth Truss worked for Shell, during which time she qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant in 1999.

Elizabeth Truss's co-authored The Value of Mathematics, Fit for Purpose, A New Level, and Back To Black: Budget 2009 Paper, among other reports.

Elizabeth Truss served as the chair of the Lewisham Deptford Conservative Association from 1998 to 2000.

Elizabeth Truss unsuccessfully contested the Greenwich London Borough Council elections in 1998 and 2002 .

At the 2001 general election, Elizabeth Truss stood for the constituency of Hemsworth in West Yorkshire, a safe seat for the Labour Party.

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Elizabeth Truss's came a distant second, but increased the Conservative vote by 3.

Elizabeth Truss narrowly lost the election to the Labour Party incumbent.

In March 2011, Elizabeth Truss wrote a paper for the liberal think tank CentreForum in which she argued for an end to bias against serious academic subjects in the education system so that social mobility can be improved.

Elizabeth Truss wrote a further paper for the same think tank in May 2012, in which she argued for change in the structure of the childcare market in Britain.

In October 2011, Elizabeth Truss founded the Free Enterprise Group, which has been supported by over 40 other Conservative MPs.

Elizabeth Truss has championed Britain following Germany's lead in allowing people to have tax-free and less heavily regulated "mini-jobs".

Since Elizabeth Truss published a paper on the policy for the Free Enterprise Group in February 2012, the policy has been examined by the Treasury as a policy to promote growth.

Elizabeth Truss has campaigned for improved teaching of more rigorous school subjects, especially mathematics.

Elizabeth Truss herself studied maths and further maths at A level.

Elizabeth Truss's argued in 2011 that comprehensive school pupils were being "mis-sold" easy, low-value subjects to boost school results: comprehensive school pupils were six times as likely to take media studies at A-level as privately educated pupils.

Elizabeth Truss criticised the over-reliance on calculators to the detriment of mental arithmetic.

On 4 September 2012, Elizabeth Truss was appointed as parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Education, responsible for childcare and early learning, assessment, qualifications, curriculum reform, behaviour and attendance, and school food review.

Elizabeth Truss's sought to improve British standards in maths for fear that children are falling behind those in Asian countries, and led a fact-finding visit to schools and teacher-training centres in Shanghai in February 2014 to see how children there have become the best in the world at maths.

Elizabeth Truss outlined plans to reform childcare in England, which would overhaul childcare qualifications and increase the maximum number of children relative to adults in a care establishment, with the intention of widening the availability of childcare along with increasing pay and qualifications among staff.

Elizabeth Truss responded to Toynbee's challenge by saying that being an early educator was a very demanding job, requiring great and specialist expertise, for which she was not trained.

In November 2014, Elizabeth Truss launched a new 10-year bee and pollinator strategy to try to reverse the trend of falling bee populations, including a strategy to revive traditional meadows which provide the most fertile habitat for pollinators.

Elizabeth Truss cut taxpayer subsidies for solar panels on agricultural land, as her view was that the land could be better used to grow crops, food and vegetables.

Elizabeth Truss's described farming and food as "hotbeds of innovation" and promoted the production and export of British food.

On 14 July 2016, Elizabeth Truss was appointed as secretary of state for justice and lord chancellor in Theresa May's first ministry.

Elizabeth Truss became the first woman to hold either position and the first female Lord Chancellor in the thousand-year history of the office.

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Elizabeth Truss herself said that he did not contact her before going public with his criticism, and she had never met or spoken to him.

In November 2016, Elizabeth Truss was further criticised, including by the former attorney general Dominic Grieve and the Criminal Bar Association, for failing to support more robustly the judiciary and the principle of judicial independence, after three judges of the Divisional Court came under attack from politicians and from the Daily Mail for ruling against the government in R v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.

Lord Falconer, the former lord chancellor, who had previously suggested that, like her immediate predecessors Chris Grayling and Michael Gove, Elizabeth Truss lacked the essential legal expertise that the constitution requires, called for her to be sacked as justice secretary as her perceived inadequate response "signals to the judges that they have lost their constitutional protector".

However, in March 2017, the lord chief justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, told the House of Lords constitution select committee that Elizabeth Truss was "completely and utterly wrong" to say she could not criticise the media and reiterated the importance of protecting judges.

On 11 June 2017, following the general election, Elizabeth Truss was moved to the position of chief secretary to the Treasury, attending the cabinet but not a full member of it, in what was seen by some as a demotion.

Elizabeth Truss developed an enthusiasm for cultivating her presence on Twitter and Instagram.

Elizabeth Truss's was closely involved in the launch of the free market campaign group, Freer.

In June 2018, Elizabeth Truss gave a speech outlining her declared commitment to freedom and individual liberty.

In 2019, Elizabeth Truss declared that she could be a candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party to succeed May However, she ultimately elected not to stand, and instead endorsed Boris Johnson.

Twice in September 2019, Elizabeth Truss said that the Department for International Trade had "inadvertently" allowed shipping of radio spares and an air cooler to Saudi Arabia in contravention of an order of the Court of Appeal, which found that UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia for use in the war in Yemen were unlawful.

On 19 March 2020, Elizabeth Truss introduced to Parliament the Trade Act 2021, which established the legal framework for the UK to conduct trade deals with nations around the world.

On 7 July 2020, Elizabeth Truss announced the lifting of a year-long ban on the export of arms and military equipment to Saudi Arabia.

Elizabeth Truss undertook negotiations for a post-Brexit free trade agreement between the UK and Japan.

In January 2022, the former Australian prime minister Paul Keating, who serves on the international board of the China Development Bank, accused Elizabeth Truss of making "demented" comments about Chinese military aggression in the Pacific, saying that "Britain suffers delusions of grandeur and relevance deprivation".

Elizabeth Truss was appointed in December 2021 as the British Government's chief negotiator with the EU, following the resignation of Lord Frost.

Elizabeth Truss's scheduled trip to Ukraine was cancelled after she tested positive for COVID-19 on 31 January 2022.

On 6 February 2022, Elizabeth Truss warned that "China must respect the Falklands' sovereignty" and defended the Falkland Islands as "part of the British family" after China backed Argentina's claim over islands.

Elizabeth Truss dismissed "demands to remove Russian troops from Russian territory" as "regrettable" and asked Truss if she recognised Russia's sovereignty over the Voronezh and Rostov regions, two Russian provinces where Russian troops were deployed.

On 21 February 2022, Elizabeth Truss condemned Russia's diplomatic recognition of two self-proclaimed separatist republics in the Donbas in Ukraine.

Elizabeth Truss's stated that the British government would announce new sanctions against Russia.

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Elizabeth Truss's said the Russo-Ukrainian War could "last for years" and that it could mark the "beginning of the end" for Putin.

Elizabeth Truss's wanted to push Russia's economy "back into the Soviet era".

On 10 July 2022, Elizabeth Truss announced her intention to run in the Conservative Party leadership election to replace Boris Johnson.

Elizabeth Truss's pledged to cut taxes on day one if elected, and said she would "fight the election as a Conservative and govern as a Conservative", adding that she would take "immediate action to help people deal with the cost of living".

Elizabeth Truss's said she would cancel a planned rise in corporation tax and reverse the recent increase in National Insurance rates, funded by delaying the date by which the national debt is planned to fall, as part of a "long-term plan to bring down the size of the state and the tax burden".

Elizabeth Truss's finished second in the final MPs ballot, receiving 113 votes to Sunak's 137 votes.

Elizabeth Truss was appointed the new prime minister of the United Kingdom in one of the Queen's last official acts before her death just two days later on 8 September 2022 at the age of 96.

Elizabeth Truss began appointing her cabinet and other government positions on 6 September 2022.

Elizabeth Truss's appointed Therese Coffey, a close friend and ally, as deputy prime minister and health secretary.

Elizabeth Truss appointed Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor of the Exchequer, James Cleverly as foreign secretary and Suella Braverman as home secretary.

Elizabeth Truss is known for her economically liberal views and her support for free trade.

Elizabeth Truss's founded the Free Enterprise Group of Conservative MPs, a pro-free market collection of parliamentarians arguing for a more entrepreneurial economy and fewer employment laws.

Elizabeth Truss promised to "review" moving the British embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Elizabeth Truss's has called for Britain to reduce economic dependency on China and Russia and has supported certain diplomatic and economic sanctions imposed by the British government against China, including barring the Chinese ambassador to the UK Zheng Zeguang from entering Parliament, in response to China's retaliatory sanctions due to Xinjiang.

Elizabeth Truss's accused Rishi Sunak of "seeking closer economic relations" with China.

Elizabeth Truss has been a strong supporter of Taiwan in the context of deteriorating cross strait relations, but, citing precedent, has said she would not visit the island nation if she was elected prime minister.

Elizabeth Truss's described the Chinese government's treatment of the Uyghur people as "genocide".

Elizabeth Truss's stated that the UK and Turkey are "key European NATO allies" and called for UK-Turkey cooperation on "energy, defence and security" to be deepened.

Elizabeth Truss said she would continue to support Cyprus in its "efforts for reunification under international law and in helping find a peaceful and lasting solution" to the Cyprus conflict between Greek Cypriots and Turkish-backed Turkish Cypriot separatists.

Elizabeth Truss supported the United Kingdom's remaining in the European Union during the 2016 referendum.

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Elizabeth Truss's added that "some of the portents of doom didn't happen and instead we have actually unleashed new opportunities" after Brexit.

On culture, Elizabeth Truss has said that the Conservative Party should "reject the zero-sum game of identity politics, we reject the illiberalism of cancel culture, and we reject the soft bigotry of low expectations that holds so many people back".

Elizabeth Truss's has suggested that Britain should not ignore the history of the British Empire, but should embrace the country's history "warts and all" if it is to compete with hostile states.

In 2021, Elizabeth Truss voted to decriminalise abortion in Northern Ireland and abstained from voting on the introduction of "buffer zones" outside of abortion clinics.

Elizabeth Truss's spoke against gender self-identification, stating that "medical checks are important".

Elizabeth Truss's said that she agreed that "only women have a cervix".

Elizabeth Truss's stated that the government departments should withdraw from Stonewall's diversity champions scheme.

Elizabeth Truss has signed the Conservative Environment Pledge on the website of the Conservative Environment Network, which has the support of 127 Conservative MPs.

Elizabeth Truss has undertaken to approve a series of oil and gas drilling licences in the North Sea, with her advisers talking to energy firms about North Sea production, as confirmed by Offshore Energies UK.

Elizabeth Truss's has proposed that solar panel use should be restricted to commercial roofs.

At hustings for the Conservative Party leadership election in Exeter in August 2022, Elizabeth Truss has said that she would give her support to the construction of small modular reactors and large nuclear power facilities in the United Kingdom.

In 2000, Elizabeth Truss married Hugh O'Leary, a fellow accountant, at St Alfege Church, Greenwich; the couple have two daughters.

Elizabeth Truss's uncle, Reverend Canon Richard Elizabeth Truss, is a retired priest of the Church of England and a former vicar at St John's Church, Waterloo.

Elizabeth Truss officiated at the marriage between Truss and O'Leary.