Elizabeth Truss

Elizabeth Mary "Liz" Truss (born 26 July 1975) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk since the 2010 general election. Since 15 July 2014, she has served as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Truss grew up in a left-wing family in Paisley and Leeds, before graduating at the University of Oxford. She worked in sales and as an economist, before becoming deputy director at the think-tank Reform. She was elected in 2010 for South West Norfolk.

As a backbencher, Truss called for reform in a number of policy areas, including childcare, maths education, and the economy. She founded the Free Enterprise Group of Conservative MPs. She has authored and co-authored a number of papers and books, including After the Coalition (2011) and Britannia Unchained (2012).

In September 2012, she was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for education and childcare in the Department for Education.

Podcasts:

PLAYLIST TIME:

Latest News for: liz truss

Edit

Chaos is Trump’s calling card. But reality is biting back | Lloyd Green

The Guardian 29 Apr 2025
We can only guess what’s next. In nearly 100 days on the job, Donald Trump has outlasted Liz Truss and a fabled head of lettuce. That’s a fact, not an achievement.
Edit

Ian Hislop: I wasted an evening watching With Love, Meghan

The Times/The Sunday Times 29 Apr 2025
BETA. Today's Quizle. Q. Test your knowledge. Unleashed by Boris Johnson. Liz Truss’s Ten Years to Save the West. I really should. I know I am missing a comedy masterpiece ... Somehow I don’t care. With Love, Meghan on Netflix ... Culture ... Related articles ... .
Edit

This week is the beginning of the end for Starmer

The Daily Telegraph 29 Apr 2025
No one, including even Liz Truss, has looked as miserable in the top job in British politics since Gordon Brown realised it was a lot tougher than Tony had made it look ... Join the conversation ... Keir Starmer, Labour Party, Tony Blair, Liz Truss, Runcorn.
Edit

Carney’s dire record at the Bank of England is a warning to Canada

AOL 29 Apr 2025
He has no experience of elective office ... Next, he lost control of regulation, allowing pension funds to invest far too much money into high-risk assets, paving the way for the LDI blow-up that helped end the premiership of the unfortunate Liz Truss ... .
Edit

Carney's dire record at the Bank of England is a warning to Canada

The Daily Telegraph 29 Apr 2025
He has no experience of elective office ... Next, he lost control of regulation, allowing pension funds to invest far too much money into high-risk assets, paving the way for the LDI blow-up that helped end the premiership of the unfortunate Liz Truss ... .
Edit

How Mark Carney Won Canada’s Pivotal Election

Time Magazine 29 Apr 2025
[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] ... Their friends in the media even trotted out former British Prime Minister Liz Truss—whose premiership did not outlast a head of lettuce—to attack him, but nothing worked ... .
Edit

Liz Truss’s social media platform might work

New Statesman 28 Apr 2025
It is likely with this in mind that, last week, the former UK prime minister Liz Truss announced that she would be testing the popularity of niche ... This is yet another attempt by Truss to enter the ...
Edit

Faisal Islam: Trump could be ready to retreat on tariffs

BBC News 28 Apr 2025
I was reminded of the time at the IMF in 2022 when developing country finance ministers asked me if everything was OK in Britain during the mini budget crisis of Liz Truss' government ... .
Edit

The Lib Dems’ Middle England revolution

New Statesman 28 Apr 2025
In the River Chess, dressed in fishing waders, Ed Davey is planting flag iris ... A recent put the Lib Dems first in the south outside of London ... Matters little improved in the years that followed ... Liz Truss’s kamikaze economics provoked homeowners.
Edit

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Will UK gain from Trump pain?

This is Money 27 Apr 2025
Brexit and the Liz Truss bond debacle were seized upon by international rivals to brand the UK stupid and retrograde and to try to lure business from the City ... Those views are, thanks to Trump, being reassessed ... ....
Edit

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Will UK gain from Trump pain? | This is Money

The Daily Mail 27 Apr 2025
Brexit and the Liz Truss bond debacle were seized upon by international rivals to brand the UK stupid and retrograde and to try to lure business from the City ... Those views are, thanks to Trump, being reassessed ... Man with a plan ... RELATED ARTICLES ... .
Edit

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Will UK gain from Trump pain? | Daily Mail Online

The Daily Mail 27 Apr 2025
Brexit and the Liz Truss bond debacle were seized upon by international rivals to brand the UK stupid and retrograde and to try to lure business from the City ... Those views are, thanks to Trump, being reassessed ... Man with a plan ... RELATED ARTICLES ... .
Edit

Nigel Farage is a political fraud ‘cosplaying’ as working-class champion, TUC chief says

The Observer 27 Apr 2025
Nowak warned voters tempted by Reform UK not to have the wool pulled over their eyes, even though they were impatient for change ... He described him as a “political fraud and a hypocrite” who “makes Liz Truss look like a politician with integrity” ... .
Edit

Why the middle classes are giving up on skiing

The Spectator 27 Apr 2025
Let’s cherchez un violon petit! Skiing is now too pricey for the middle classes ... It’s not just the accelerated cost of living in the UK – or Liz Truss personally putting our mortgages up by a grand a month ... Most popular. Francis Pike ... Michael Jackson ... .
Edit

The Tories face a bloody nose from Farage’s Reform, but the fight has just begun

The Daily Telegraph 27 Apr 2025
... catastrophic premiership of Liz Truss, the dishonesty and incompetence of Boris Johnson, and the chronic indecision and tin ear of Theresa May – is to most minds essential if the party is to move on.
×