London: In childhood, Lizzo truss Protest against Conservative PM Margaret thatcher, As an adult, she came to admire Britain’s first female leader – and is now about to enter No. 10 Downing St with Thatcherite enthusiasm to transform the United Kingdom.
Truss (47) will be Britain’s third female prime minister after Thatcher, who ruled from 1979 to 1990, and Theresa May, who held office from 2016 to 2019. Britain’s staunch support for Ukraine. Some see echoes of the Iron Lady – as Thatcher was known – in the truce’s vision of the “network of freedoms” that bind democracies around the world. To critics, Truss is an inflexible ideologue whose right-wing policies will not help Britain deal with the economic turmoil caused by the pandemic, Brexit and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Born in Oxford in 1975, Mary Elizabeth Truss is the daughter of a mathematics professor and a nurse, who took her to anti-nuclear and anti-Thatcher protests as a child, where she shouted: “Maggie, Maggie, Maggie – out, Out, out!” In a 2018 speech, she said she began to develop her own political views early on, “arguing against my socialist parents in our left-wing home.”
Truss has modeled herself on Thatcher, posing on a tank like her heroine once did in West Germany and wearing a silk cat-bow blouse, a staple of Thatcher wardrobe. But his politics are similar to those of another right-wing hero, America’s Ronald Reagan: a clarion call for lower taxes and smaller government, along with celebrating post-Brexit Britain as an “aspirational nation”. That message appealed to the 160,000 or so mostly white and mostly older members of the Conservative Party, who chose it over the harsh truths presented by their opponent, Rishi Sunki, Now, he must re-pivot to lead a diverse, divided country facing its worst economic news in a generation.
Politics quickly attracted him, and Truss became president of the Oxford University Liberal Democrats, where he campaigned to legalize marijuana. Soon after graduating in 1996, however, she moved to the Conservatives, a party that was then pursuing a career in the political jungle. He worked in the private sector, qualifying as a chartered accountant for energy giant Shell and Cable & Wireless. Elected to Parliament in 2010 as a member of South West Norfolk, Truss held six ministerial positions under three Conservative PMs.
In the UK’s 2016 referendum on whether to leave the EU, the truce supported the losing “stay” side. Since the vote, he has won over Brexiters with his uncompromising attitude towards the European Union. In 2021, she was appointed Britain’s top diplomat, Foreign Secretary. His performance has received mixed reviews. He ensured the release of two UK nationals jailed in Iran, where their predecessors had failed. Many admire his firm response to invasion of Ukraine: Truss goes on boris johnson In his tough line against Russia. “Putin must lose in Ukraine,” she said last March. He had a famously icy meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, on the eve of the war. But EU officials who expected him to be soft on Brexit issues have been disappointed.
Truss (47) will be Britain’s third female prime minister after Thatcher, who ruled from 1979 to 1990, and Theresa May, who held office from 2016 to 2019. Britain’s staunch support for Ukraine. Some see echoes of the Iron Lady – as Thatcher was known – in the truce’s vision of the “network of freedoms” that bind democracies around the world. To critics, Truss is an inflexible ideologue whose right-wing policies will not help Britain deal with the economic turmoil caused by the pandemic, Brexit and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Born in Oxford in 1975, Mary Elizabeth Truss is the daughter of a mathematics professor and a nurse, who took her to anti-nuclear and anti-Thatcher protests as a child, where she shouted: “Maggie, Maggie, Maggie – out, Out, out!” In a 2018 speech, she said she began to develop her own political views early on, “arguing against my socialist parents in our left-wing home.”
Truss has modeled herself on Thatcher, posing on a tank like her heroine once did in West Germany and wearing a silk cat-bow blouse, a staple of Thatcher wardrobe. But his politics are similar to those of another right-wing hero, America’s Ronald Reagan: a clarion call for lower taxes and smaller government, along with celebrating post-Brexit Britain as an “aspirational nation”. That message appealed to the 160,000 or so mostly white and mostly older members of the Conservative Party, who chose it over the harsh truths presented by their opponent, Rishi Sunki, Now, he must re-pivot to lead a diverse, divided country facing its worst economic news in a generation.
Politics quickly attracted him, and Truss became president of the Oxford University Liberal Democrats, where he campaigned to legalize marijuana. Soon after graduating in 1996, however, she moved to the Conservatives, a party that was then pursuing a career in the political jungle. He worked in the private sector, qualifying as a chartered accountant for energy giant Shell and Cable & Wireless. Elected to Parliament in 2010 as a member of South West Norfolk, Truss held six ministerial positions under three Conservative PMs.
In the UK’s 2016 referendum on whether to leave the EU, the truce supported the losing “stay” side. Since the vote, he has won over Brexiters with his uncompromising attitude towards the European Union. In 2021, she was appointed Britain’s top diplomat, Foreign Secretary. His performance has received mixed reviews. He ensured the release of two UK nationals jailed in Iran, where their predecessors had failed. Many admire his firm response to invasion of Ukraine: Truss goes on boris johnson In his tough line against Russia. “Putin must lose in Ukraine,” she said last March. He had a famously icy meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, on the eve of the war. But EU officials who expected him to be soft on Brexit issues have been disappointed.