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All You Need to Know About New UK Prime Minister, Liz Truss

Tare Magbei
Tare Magbei
Published: June 14, 2025
Last updated: June 14, 2025
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All You Need to Know About New UK Prime Minister, Liz Truss
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Liz Truss was on Monday announced as new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after her emergence as leader of the Conservative Party.

She defeated Rishi Sunak in a Torey vote, polling 81,326 votes ahead of Sunak, who scored60,399 votes.

Her position as leader of the ruling Conservative Party sees her replacing Boris Johnson Prime Minister.

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Johnson had resigned as British Prime Minister earlier in July following an investigation into scandals.

47-year-old Truss will be just the third female Prime Minister of UK, following in the footsteps of Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May.

Prior to her emergence as Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, Truss served as UK’s Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since 2021 and Minister for Women and Equalities since 2019.

Below are things to know about the third female British Prime Minister:

1 – Liz Truss (Mary Elizabeth Truss) was born on July 26, 1975 in Oxford, England, to John Kenneth and Priscilla Mary Truss.

2 – Truss attended West Primary School in Paisley, Scotland. She then attended Roundhay School, in the Roundhay area of Leeds.

3 – She read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Merton College, Oxford, graduating in 1996.

4 – Truss was active in the Liberal Democrats. She was president of Oxford University Liberal Democrats and a member of the national executive committee of Liberal Democrat Youth and Students. During her time as a Liberal Democrat, Truss supported the legalisation of cannabis and the abolition of the monarchy.

5 – She joined the Conservative Party in 1996.

6 – Truss worked for Shell from 1996 t0 2000, during which time she qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant in 1999.

7 – She was employed by Cable & Wireless in 2000 and rose to economic director before leaving in 2005.

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

9 – She unsuccessfully contested the Greenwich London Borough Council elections in 1998 (for Vanbrugh ward) and 2002 (in Blackheath Westcombe).

10 – She was elected as a councillor for Eltham South in the Greenwich London Borough Council election on May 4, 2026.

11 – Under David Cameron as Conservative leader, Truss was added to the party’s ‘A List’.

12 – On September 4, 2012, Truss was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Education, with responsibility for childcare and early learning, assessment, qualifications and curriculum reform, behaviour and attendance, and school food review.

13 – In a July 15, 2014 cabinet reshuffle, Truss was appointed Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, replacing Owen Paterson.

14 – On July 14, 2016, Truss was appointed as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor in Theresa May’s first ministry. She became the first woman to hold either position and the first female Lord Chancellor in the thousand-year history of the office.

15 – On June 11, 2017, following the general election, she was moved to the position of Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

16 – She was promoted by Boris Johnson to the position of Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade. Following the resignation of Amber Rudd, Truss was additionally appointed Minister for Women and Equalities.

17 – On September 15, 2021, during a cabinet reshuffle, Johnson promoted Truss from International Trade Secretary to Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, thus becoming the second woman to hold the position after Margaret Beckett.

18 – On July 10, 2022, Truss announced her intention to run in the Conservative Party leadership election to replace Boris Johnson after the latter’s resignation.

19 – On September 5, 2022, Truss won the Conservative Party’s election as party leader, beating her rival, Sunak.

20 – On September 6, 2022, Liz Truss will be officially made the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, being the third female to occupy that position.

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