As we said, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has been elected the new leader of the British Conservative Party. The election result means that Truss will become the new UK Prime Minister, succeeding the outgoing Boris Johnson. the Compiled by the BBC in a package The most important information about the future British Prime Minister, who will be the third woman in this position, and the second. Elizabeth’s fifteenth prime minister.
- Liz Truss did not win the parliamentary election, but rather a party vote.
- The Conservative Party has a majority in the British Legislative Council, so if there is no snap election, the next parliamentary vote in Great Britain is scheduled for January 2025, so it is likely that the prime minister will be by then.
- She is the third female prime minister of the United Kingdom after Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May.
- He was born in Oxford, but when he was four the family moved to Paisley, Scotland, and then to Leeds, where he attended a public secondary school. His mother once took him to a protest against nuclear weapons.
- Originally a Liberal Democrat, he campaigned for them during his undergraduate years at Oxford, and at the party conference in 1994 spoke in favor of abolishing the monarchy. While still an undergraduate, his views changed and he converted to the Conservative Party.
- After university, he worked as an accountant at Shell and Cable & Wireless
- In 2000, she married another accountant, Hugh O’Leary. The family lives in Thetford, Norfolk.
- He is 47 years old and has two daughters
- He worked for three previous prime ministers: David Cameron promoted him to environment minister, then served as justice secretary under Theresa May, and finally in 2021 he was appointed foreign minister by Boris Johnson.
- She played Thatcher in a school play when she was nine, but now finds it frustrating to be compared to her.
- He voted to remain in the Brexit referendum, but changed his mind. Later, he saw Brexit as an opportunity.
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