British Foreign Secretary Liz Trusshas emerged victorious from the primaries held within the Conservative Party to choose the successor to current leader Boris Johnson to become the UK’s new Prime Minister. She has been married to accountant Hugh O’Leary since 2000. She is the mother of two teenage daughters. Her biggest marital crisis came in 2010 when it was revealed that her politician was in a relationship with a fellow party member.
Truss edged out former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak in the final vote — open to all militancy, which ended on Friday.
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After confirming her victory, Truss will officially become Prime Minister on Tuesday when she travels to Balmoral to meet Queen Isabel II. This completes the renewal process announced by Johnson in his July 7 resignation speech.
Liz Truss becomes the third woman in UK history to rule, after Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May.
The 47-year-old, who was born in Oxford, has been compared to Margaret Thatcher by the British press for years, and she, astute at identifying the engines propelling her meteoric career, uses every opportunity to debunk the myth nourish. Her fans are calling her “the new Iron Lady” and she’s thrilled to take on the role.
Truss holds the record for longest tenure in a Conservative Party position. The other ministers call her “tenacious” and “resilient” and describe her as someone whose energy is “extraordinary” and who “never stops working”.
This limitation is supported by an anecdote: the politician went into labor at a work meeting with her first daughter. A former co-worker called her “the most focused, obsessive person I’ve ever met.” “The difference between her and a Rottweiler is that eventually the dog will let go of its prey,” she added.
Before entering politics, Truss, a graduate in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, worked as a managing director at oil and gas company Shell and as chief economic officer at telecommunications company Cable & Wireless. After two failed attempts, she won a Conservative seat in 2010.
She joined the Conservative Party at the age of 21, but not before flirting with other formations such as the Liberal Democrats at Oxford University (like Johnson himself), where she became President of the University Society. When she joined, the Tories were in their darkest hours in the face of the rise of New Labour. Tony Blair. But Truss stayed true to his principles.
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In 2011, still an MP without portfolio, she founded the parliamentary group Free Enterprise Group and caused controversy by publishing a book (co-authored with Quasi Quarteng y Come Patel (also now Minister)) in which he stated that ” the Brits are among the worst slackers in the world”.
Liz Truss, privately
She has been married to accountant Hugh O’Leary since 2000. Five years later, she starred in one of those political-sexual scandals that were so popular in Britain that she became even more famous. She had an extramarital affair with fellow Member of Parliament Mark Field for a year and a half that came to light during the 2010 re-election campaign. Their marriage survived and everything became a story. “I’m happily married,” Truss said in a post-scandal interview.
The politician and the accountant met at a Conservative Party convention in 1997 and went on their first date shortly thereafter. “If I want to have a nightly discussion about supply-side reforms or the economy, there’s always someone there,” the British Foreign Secretary joked about her husband. They have two daughters: Frances and Liberty, teenagers whose exact ages are unknown.
The politician lives with her family in Downham Market, Norfolk, but divides her time between home and work in London. She must now move to 10 Downing Street.
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