Liz Truss

Liz Truss sat in the British House of Commons as a Conservative MP between 2010 and 2024, continuously holding ministerial office for more than ten years between 2012 and 2022. After an initial spell as a junior education minister, she sat in the Cabinet in six different roles, prior to becoming Prime Minister: Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice; Chief Secretary to the Treasury; Secretary of State for International Trade; and Foreign Secretary – as well as Minister for Women and Equalities. In 2022 she became the 56th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and sought to implement her Plan for Growth, including a raft of tax cuts to kick-start economic growth and reforms to boost productivity. Regrettably these reforms did not command sufficient political and economic support and she reached the conclusion that she could not deliver the mandate on which she had been elected and stepped down. She holds a degree in politics, philosophy and economics from the University of Oxford.

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