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Liz Truss

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The Resume

    (July 26, 1975- )
    Born in Oxford, England, United Kingdom
    Birth name was Mary Elizabeth Truss
    Member of Parliament for Southwest Norfolk (assumed office May 6, 2010)
    Secretary of State for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (2014-16)
    Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor (2016-17)
    Chief Secretary to the Treasury (2017-19)
    Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade (2019-21)
    Minister for Women and Equalities (2019-22)
    Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (2021-22)
    Succeeded Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party (September 5, 2022) and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (September 6, 2022)
    Announced resignation as Prime Minister (October 20, 2022)

Why she might be annoying:

    She was president of the Oxford University Liberal Democrats, but joined the Conservative Party less than a year after graduating. (Although it was not quite as radical a change as the party names might suggest: the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives had enough in common to form a coalition government in 2010.)
    Neil Fawcett, one of her former Liberal Democrat colleagues, said, ‘I think she is someone who plays to the gallery with whatever audience she is talking to, and I genuinely don't know if she ever believes anything she says, then or now.’
    She campaigned against Brexit (Britain leaving the European Union), then supported it once it passed, with a fellow Conservative cabinet member commenting, ‘I find it hard to believe she’s changed her mind quite this much.’
    Her comment that ‘the jury is out’ on whether French President Emmanuel Macron was ‘a friend or foe’ drew rebukes from fellow Conservatives. (Former Chief of Staff Gavin Barwell: ‘You would have thought the Foreign Secretary was aware we are in a military alliance with France.’)
    She conducted an extramarital affair with fellow MP Mark Field (2004-05).

Why she might not be annoying:

    She is a fan of British cheeses.
    She is an enthusiastic karaoke singer.
    She called for math classes to be compulsory for all full-time students.
    As Environment Secretary, she launched a ten-year pollinator plan to reverse the trend of declining bee populations (2014).
    She said about her original opposition to Brexit, ‘I was wrong and I am prepared to admit I was wrong.’
    She negotiated Britain’s first post-Brexit trade deal with Japan (2020).
    She signed a pledge to make the United Kingdom carbon neutral by 2050.

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 20 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 352 Votes: 43.75% Annoying