Photos: Liz Truss, the UK’s new prime minister

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Truss is photographed in her London workplace whereas she was deputy director of Reform, a coverage suppose tank, in 2009.

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While operating for Parliament, Truss canvasses in the village of West Walton in 2010. She was elected later that yr. Truss was born in 1975 right into a household that she herself has described as “to the left of Labour,” Britain’s principal left-wing get together. She grew up in elements of the UK that did not historically vote Conservative, transferring between Scotland and the north of England.

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Truss seems with John Stapleton on the “Daybreak” tv program in February 2014. Truss says she joined the Conservatives in 1996, simply two years after she gave a speech at a Liberal Democrat convention calling for the finish of the monarchy.

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Truss meets college students at a faculty in west London in July 2014. She was launching a new authorities plan to get extra domestically sourced and grown meals into faculties and hospitals.

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Truss speaks at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, England, in 2015. At the time, she was secretary of state for atmosphere, meals and rural affairs.

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Truss stands between John Thomas, the lord chief justice of England and Wales, and John Dyson, grasp of the rolls at the Royal Courts of Justice, in July 2016. She had been sworn in as lord chancellor and justice secretary in Theresa May’s new authorities.

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Truss speaks with Custodial Manager Wendy-Fisher McFarlane as she is escorted round the HM Prison Brixton in November 2016.

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Truss arrives at Downing Street in 2017.

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Truss, then as chief secretary to the Treasury, joins Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond and different members of the Treasury group earlier than they offered the authorities’s annual finances to Parliament in 2018.

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Truss and London Mayor Peter Estlin be a part of US Vice President Mike Pence and his spouse, Karen, at a global commerce dinner in London in 2019.

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Truss speaks throughout the annual Conservative Party convention in October 2021.

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Truss, as overseas secretary, stands with Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid as they met in London in November 2021.

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Truss, middle, poses for a bunch photograph with different G7 overseas ministers forward of a gathering in Liverpool, England, in December 2021.

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Truss attends a gathering with European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic in Sevenoaks, England, in January 2022.

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Truss takes half in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow in February 2022.

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Sefcovic and Truss meet in London in February 2022. Truss supported remaining in the European Union in the UK’s referendum in 2016. At the time, Truss tweeted that she was backing those that wished to stay in the bloc as a result of “it is in Britain’s economic interest and means we can focus on vital economic and social reform at home.” Truss now backs Brexit, saying that her fears earlier than the referendum that it may trigger “disruption” have been mistaken.

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Truss makes a press release on sanctions after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

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Truss and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken maintain a joint information convention in Washington, DC, in March 2022.

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Truss and Home Secretary Priti Patel, proper, sit with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his spouse, Carrie, throughout the National Service of Thanksgiving in June 2022. It was a part of celebrations marking the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

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Truss meets supporters throughout a marketing campaign occasion in London in July 2022.

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Truss delivers a speech after turning into Prime Minister-elect in September 2022.

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Truss waves as she leaves Conservative Party Headquarters in September 2022.

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