Liz is on Twitter... Liz Truss (@trussliz) / Twitter
Mary Elizabeth Truss was born in Oxford .. her father was a professor at the University of Leeds..
A married mother of two and was at one time a Shell oil company executive..
Liz lived in Canada for a year ...
"During her time as a Liberal Democrat, Truss supported the legalisation of cannabis and the abolition of the monarchy"
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Liz Truss is the new prime minister of the UK.
The 47-year-old defeated Rishi Sunak in the vote to succeed Boris Johnson as the leader of the Conservative Party and the country.
The chairman of the 1922 Committee Sir Graham Brady announced the winner at a press conference this afternoon.
Speaking following the result, Truss, who is the third female prime minister in the country's history, said she was proud of the contest and thanked the 'outgoing leader and my friend, Boris Johnson'.
She praised him for 'crushing Jeremy Corbyn' and 'standing up to Vladimir Putin', saying he was 'admired from Kyiv to Carlisle'.
Truss said: "We all will deliver for our country and I will make sure that we use all the fantastic talents of the Conservative Party, our brilliant Members of Parliament and peers, our fantastic councillors, our MSs, our MSPs, all of our councillors and activists and members right across our country.
"Because my friends, I know that we will deliver, we will deliver and we will deliver.
"And we will deliver a great victory for the Conservative Party in 2024."
Truss replaces outgoing Johnson....
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
born 19 June 1964 in New York City
About Liz the school girl in Canada here:
"Long before Liz Truss was elected to lead the Conservative party and serve as Britain’s next prime minister, she was a 12-year-old girl in a pink sweater with shoulder-length brown hair and big, swooping bangs.
And she lived in Canada — an experience that made a profound impression on the future politician and could now see her government forging closer ties today between London and Ottawa.
Truss’s Canadian love story starts in 1987, the year that the ‘Loonie’ coin entered circulation, the year that Prozac first hit the market, the year that Starbucks opened its first café in Vancouver and the year that the U.K.’s first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady, was re-elected to a third governing term.
In September of that year, Mary Elizabeth Truss took her seat in Bill Chambers’ Grade 6/7 split class at Parkcrest School, in Burnaby, B.C., near Simon Fraser University, where John Truss, her father, was working for the year as a visiting associate professor of mathematics.
One of the most exciting things about Mr. Chambers’ class that year was the new girl with the English accent.
“I remember being excited about somebody new. I remember her accent and I remember that she was very smart,” Brenda Montagano, one of her Grade 7 classmates, told the Star.
“You know how you have your class clown and you’ve got the kids that care more about school than others? She struck me as someone who certainly cared about school, and she did well at school.” " from this article:
Why British PM-to-be Liz Truss has a ‘sweet spot’ for Canada | The Star
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