Liz Truss has experienced political reinvention to be a favorite to replace Boris Johnson as the leader of the Conservative Party and the Prime Minister of the UK.
The Foreign Minister campaigned for the British to remain in the European Union before embracing Brexit with a spirit that was converted after the voting was going on the opposite. And he changed from shouting the slogan -Slogan as a child against the conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s and led the Liberal Democratic Society of Oxford University to be the favorite of the Tory Party’s rights.
My parents are left -wing activists, and I have been on a political journey since then,” Truss said in the ITV debate about Tory’s leadership candidates on Sunday. On Thursday, he told BBC Radio that he was wrong in Brexit.
Now, Truss was established six weeks – and one voting – far from claiming the top work in British politics, with only former Chancellor Minister of Finance Rishi Suna who was blocking his way. British betting has installed him as a favorite, and the voting of party members by Yougov suggested he would defeat his opponent in the votes in the voting of the runoff between the grassroots party.
Truss – which will be 47 weeks old – has pulled the right wing of his party through her libertarianism, generating free market values, supporting low taxation and repeatedly reviving the “caregiver” which interferes with ordinary life that is ordinary – usual English.
He won an admirer among the eager Brexiteers by challenging the European Union over the Brexit agreement that was attacked by the Johnson government itself, introduced a bill that put aside most of its provisions in Northern Ireland.
Even while protesting loyalty to Johnson, the Minister of Foreign Affairs has done a little to disguise his ambitions to claim the top work, with colleagues in social events known as “Fizz with Liz” and run the Instagram feed that is carefully cured Social “run by the Saunak team.
He also shamelessly inviting comparisons with thatrer, the icon of Tory that he had ever opposed. That includes posing in a tank in Eastern Europe – as did the former Prime Minister on a visit to British troops in Germany in 1986.
Truss reached two finals after trailing the Sunak and Minister of Trade Penny Mordaunt in the first four rounds of voting between the Tory MPs; Just manage to overhaul the mordaunt in the fifth strict voting. A person who survived politics, he is the longest member of the government, holds a ministerial position since 2012, and serves in the cabinet since 2014, under three prime ministers.
He was born in 1975 from the left wing parents, and attended the Anti-Thatcher protest, he talked about joining them in demonstrations against nuclear weapons.
Truss grew up in Scotland and then Leeds, where he attended a comprehensive school before continuing to Oxford University to study philosophy, politics, and economy. He then worked for Shell as an industrial economist before moving to cable & wireless and think-tank reform.
The ‘gaze’ look
He served for four years as a member of the council in Southeast London, before entering parliament as a member of parliament representing southwest Norfolk in 2010. Prime Minister at that time, David Cameron, gave him his first ministerial position at the Ministry of Education in September 2012, before promoting him to the cabinet as the Secretary of the Environment in 2014.
The task as Secretary of the Justice, the Head of the Treasury Secretary and the Trade Secretary was followed, before his promotion last year became the Minister of Foreign Affairs, one of the four “major offices of the state” in British politics. On Thursday, he told BBC Radio that his cabinet experience had equipped him for the top work.
What I showed was that I was tough under pressure, “Truss said.” I have dealt with some of the worst floods for one generation, I have dealt with the worst prison riots since Strangeways, I have dealt with the worst war in Europe. “
Apart from his long term in the cabinet, Truss sometimes struggled to be considered serious by colleagues, the press and the public. He was ridiculed for a 2014 speech where he declared it “embarrassing” that England imported most of the cheese, a comment displayed in the “Best Moment” compilation video circulating this week on Twitter.
Truss also has a reputation to be awkward, according to a conversation by Bloomberg with more than a dozen people who know him. Tories spoke of his “gaze” – the habit of looking directly into the eyes of others in the conversation and smiling, without speaking, for a few seconds. Allies suggested that an effort to be friendly. Others describe it as a terrible thing.
Tax discount
Others said he was famous among civil servants for trying to dominate the meeting by interrupting when officials spoke bluntly to tell them that he really did not agree.
Some people who have worked closely with Truss say it is difficult to know his true personal opinion about various political and policy problems. He failed to convince EU officials that he understood the details of the negotiations with them, and they were not impressed with his efforts to perform tough in a meeting with Brussels colleague Maros Sefcovic, said one.
Truss spokesman did not respond to comment requests. He himself conceded during the Sunday debate that he “might not be the most slippery presenter.”
But the allies of the truss show their connection – he presented himself from a simple start. When asked by Suna during the debate on Sunday television whether she regretted being a Lib or more, Truss swipped her education in one of the most elite private schools in the country, comparing it with her own education in the state school where she said the children “was disappointed . “
It is planned to cut tax around £ 34 billion ($ 41 billion) and criticism of Sundanese because choking growth was welcomed by those who were to the right of the party, although the plan to fund this with a higher loan caused fears, among others. He also promised lower-popular public spending among conservatives of small-state-and repeatedly pointing to the agreement he negotiated while the trade secretary.
In the friction in Saunak, Truss told the BBC that he was not “candidate for continuous economic policy” because “that’s where we did not do it correctly.”
The promises helped win the support of the Tory MPs who were sufficiently included in the Kwarteng quasi business secretary, Brexit Minister of Opportunities Jacob Rees-Mogg and Cultural Secretary Nadine Dorries-to see it into the final vote between 175,000 party members. He has long been popular among the grassroots, topping the conservative league cabinet table for a year until February. In the latest earlier this month, based on a survey of party members, he was ranked third, with a ranking 49. Slahak was minus 3 – just defeating Johnson.