Elizabeth Mary Truss (born 26 July 1975), also known as Liz Truss, is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk since the 2010 general election.
She is the daughter of a professor with an interest in mathematical logic, being raised in a left-wing household, “My mum was in the CND”,[4]
She attended Roundhay School in north-east Leeds, a comprehensive school. She read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Merton College, Oxford. Truss was President of Oxford University Liberal Democrats and expressed anti-monarchist sentiments at the 1994 Liberal Democrats conference.[4][5] After working for Shell and Cable & Wireless, she became the deputy director of Reform in January 2008,[6] where she co-authored “The value of mathematics”,[7] and “A new level”[8] amongst other reports.
She was elected as a councillor in the London Borough of Greenwich in 2006, standing down in 2010, shortly before the end of her term of office.
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