Meet the New UK PM

Meet the New UK PM

Liz  Truss

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Liz Truss has been named leader of the governing Conservative Party and Britain's next prime minister

In a vote among Conservative Party members, Truss, who is presently the foreign minister, defeated former finance minister Rishi Sunak by 81,326 to 60,399 votes.

Liz Truss Vs  Rishi Sunak

Liz Truss Vs  Rishi Sunak

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Lizz Truss is UK's third woman Prime Minister

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Mary Elizabeth Truss was born in Oxford in 1975. Her father was a mathematics professor at the University of Leeds and mother was a nurse.

Age :

Truss's family moved to Scotland when Ms Truss was four where she attended West Primary School in Paisley, Renfrewshire.

Family

Ms Liz Truss graduated in 1996 and became a commercial manager at Shell.

College

Liz Truss married Hugh O'Leary, an accountant, in 2000 and the couple has two daughters.

Husband

Ms Truss formally entered politics in 2010 as a Tory candidate, winning the South West Norfolk seat and retaining it ever since

Career