After two months of intra-party campaigning, the candidate , Foreign Secretary Liz Tras Truss – was elected leader of the British Conservative Party by absolute superiority and today succeeded former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as britain's new prime minister,—— and the third female prime minister since the constitutional monarchy.
Polls show that Mr. Truss was already the hottest candidate for prime minister long before the official results were announced, far ahead of another candidate, Rish Suank. Sir Graham Brady announced the results of the 2022 Conservative Party leader election at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster, with Liz Truss winning the race by 81,326:60,399 votes.
So who was this Prime Minister Truss who imitated that of Thatcher, who had the title of The Iron Lady in Britain?
Mary Elizabeth Truss was born in July 1975 to an intellectual family in Oxford, England. Now 47, married with two daughters, she worked as an accountant at Shell and cable TV after graduating from university, and married accountant colleague Hugh O'Leary in 2000, with the family living in Setford, Norfolk.
His father was Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Leeds, while his mother was a nurse, teacher and member of the nuclear disarmament movement. Tras once described her parents as "labour left".
At the age of four, Terrass moved with his parents to Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and from 1979 to 1985, Terrass attended West Primary School. After attending The Roundhay School in the Leeds Landersee area, she moved to Canada for a year. Tras's adolescent classmates remember Tras as a studious girl with a circle of "geeks" in her circle of friends. She is reportedly interested in social issues such as homelessness. She studied philosophy, politics and economics at Merton College, Oxford, graduating in 1996.
Political career:
Originally a member of the Liberal Democrats, Tras ran for the Liberal Democrats while at Oxford University and spoke in support of the abolition of the monarchy at the 1994 party congress. She is President of the Liberal Democrats of Oxford University and a member of the National Executive Committee of the Liberal Democrats Youth and Students (LDYS). During his tenure as a Liberal Democrat, Terrass supported the legalization of marijuana and the abolition of the monarchy, and opposed the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994.
But Mr. Truss switched to the Conservative Party in 1996, when he was still in college.
From 1998 to 2000, Tras was president of the Conservative Association in Lewisham Deptford, London. Unsuccessful in the London Borough Council elections in Greenwich in 1998 (Vanbrugh ward) and 2002 (Blackheath Westcombe), Terrass did not seek re-election to the Board on 6 May 2010.
During David Cameron's tenure as Leader of the Conservative Party, Terrass was added to the party's "A-List". In October 2009, she was elected to the seat of Parliament of Southwest Norfolk by members of the Constituency Conservative Association. In the first round of the campaign, she defeated five other candidates, winning more than 50% of the vote. Shortly after she was elected to parliament, she was opposed by some members of the constituency association for not announcing an inappropriate relationship with the married Conservative MP MarkField.
Parliamentary career:
Over a period of more than seven months, Tras raised 13 questions in the House of Commons on RAF Malham, conducted a special debate on the subject, wrote dozens of letters to Cabinet Ministers and collected MPs' signatures on a petition submitted to the Downing Street Prime Minister's Office. Beginning with her parliamentary career, she also lobbied for the two-wayization of the A11 west of Thetford; The project was approved by Parliament and completed in 2014. Focusing on Thetford Forest, in her constituency, she publicly opposed the proposal to sell the forest and played a "leading role" in preventing Kingslyn from building a waste incinerator. Her work In January 2013, she campaigned to improve the design of road intersections in her constituency, particularly the A47 road, which led to her being named a road safety councillor for the month by road safety charity Brake.
Mr. Tras had supported Britain's imitation of Germany, allowing people to have tax-exempt and weakly regulated "mini jobs", and since publishing a paper on the free conglomerate policy in February 2012, the policy has been seen by the Treasury as a pro-growth policy.
Terrass has been working to improve the teaching of more rigorous school subjects, especially mathematics. In 2012, she noted that only 20% of UK students were deficient in learning mathematics before the age of 18 and called for all full-time students to take maths classes. In 2011, she argued that students in comprehensive schools were "mistakenly sold" on simple, low-value subjects to improve academic performance, and she criticized students for relying too much on calculators to compromise mental arithmetic.
Since March 2011, she has been a member of the Judicial Task Force, where she served until she was appointed Minister of Government.
Cabinet Ministerial Career:
Junior Ministerial Career (2012–2014):
On September 4, 2012, Terrass was appointed Parliamentary Deputy Secretary of State for the Department of Education, responsible for childcare and early learning, assessment, qualification and curriculum reform, behaviour and attendance, and school food reviews. In this role, she developed some of the policy areas she pursued as a back-seater. In January 2013, she announced a reform of the UK's A-Level curriculum, concentrating the exam at the end of the two-year course. Fearing that children are lagging behind Asian countries, she tried to improve mathematics in the UK and in February 2014 led a field trip to schools and teacher training centres in Shanghai to see how children there could be the best children in the world.
Terrass also outlined a plan to reform childcare in England that would overhaul childcare eligibility and increase the maximum number of children in childcare institutions relative to adults, aiming to expand the availability of childcare services while increasing employee pay and qualifications.
Minister of the Environment (2014-2016):
In the Cabinet reshuffle of July 15, 2014, Tras was appointed Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, succeeding Owen Patterson. In stark contrast to her predecessor, Tras declared that she was fully convinced that climate change was happening and that "humanity has contributed to it."
In November 2014, Terrass launched a new 10-year bee and pollinator strategy that seeks to reverse the decline in bee populations, including a strategy to restore traditional grasslands that provide the most fertile habitat for pollinators. In July 2015, she approved a limited temporary lifting of the EU ban on the use of two neonicotinoid insecticides. Tras also cut taxpayer subsidies for solar panels for agricultural land, arguing that land could be better used to grow crops, food and vegetables. She describes agriculture and food as a "hotbed of innovation" and promotes the production and export of food in the UK.
Attorney General and Justice (2016–2017):
On July 14, 2016, Terrass was appointed former Prime Minister Theresa May's first Attorney General and Justice. Terrass became the first woman to hold both positions and the first female justice in the office's thousand-year history.
Secretary for the Treasury (2017–2019):
On June 11, 2017, after the general election, Tras was transferred to the Treasury Department as Chief Secretary, attending the Cabinet but not being a full member of the Cabinet, which some consider a demotion.
Minister of International Trade (2019–2021):
After Boris Johnson became prime minister, Truss was promoted in exchange for her support during his leadership campaign, during which time she advised Johnson on economic policy and was the designer of a tax cut plan for people earning more than £50,000. As a result, it was thought that she would be appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer or Secretary of State for Commerce, but she was promoted to Secretary of State for International Trade and Chair of the Board of Trade. Following Amber Rudd's resignation, she was again appointed Minister of Women's and Equality Affairs.
Foreign Secretary (2021–present):
On September 15, 2021, during the cabinet reshuffle, Johnson promoted Traus from Secretary of State for International Trade to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Commonwealth and Development, making her second woman after Margaret Beckett. Following Lord Frost's resignation, Terrass was appointed Chief Negotiator for the UK Government and the EU in December 2021.
During the Brexit referendum, Terrass repeatedly shouted for remainers and wrote in the media that Brexit would be a "triple tragedy" – more rules, more formalism and more delays when exporting to the EU. However, after the Brexit trend was decided, Terrass also changed his mind and began to support Brexit, saying that Brexit provided an opportunity to "change the way things work", and called on the United Kingdom to seize the opportunity to leave the European Union to promote economic transformation. On his inconsistent views on Brexit, monarchy, etc., Tras argues: "I believe that people who still have the same ideas at 46 and 16 and don't change anything, first of all they may not be normal people like me, and secondly, you know, I have the ability to learn from the mistakes I made, learn from the things I did wrong, and then move on." ”
She won the leadership race, not the general election
Tras succeeded Boris Johnson as Leader of the Conservative Party, winning the most votes from the party's members. Unless an earlier election is called, the next election will not expire until January 2025.
She has worked for three former prime ministers:
She was promoted by David Cameron to Minister of the Environment and served as Attorney General under Theresa May. She was eventually appointed foreign secretary by Boris Johnson in 2021.
She promised to "cut taxes from the first day of election"
Cancel the national insurance increase that took effect in April and suspend the green tax on energy bills to help people cope with rising costs.
The Brexit referendum voted in favor of Remain
But when the results came out, she changed her mind and announced that Brexit was an opportunity for Britain. In the leadership election, she was popular among the Conservative Party that supported Brexit.
We look forward to what the incoming female Prime Minister will do to the UK and Europe.
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