Elizabeth Truss

Elizabeth Truss, 2016

Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Truss (* 26. July 1975 in Oxford ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party and was 2017-2019 State Secretary to the Treasury in the Cabinet May II . Since July 24, 2019, she has been Minister for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade in the Boris Johnson cabinet . She has been a MP for South West Norfolk since 2010.

Life

After graduating from the University of Oxford in 1996 , Truss worked as an economist in sales and was vice-chair of the reform think tank until she became a member of the British general election in 2010 . As a backbencher , she called for reforms in various political areas, including childcare, math education, and economics. She founded the "Free Enterprise Group of Conservative MPs" and participated in some papers and books, including A. After the Coalition. (2011) and Britannia Unchained. (2012).

Truss was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State from 2012 to 2014 with responsibility for education and childcare. From 2014 to 2016 she was Minister for the Environment, Food and Rural Areas. On July 14, 2016, she was appointed Justice Minister and Lord Chancellor by Theresa May , replacing Michael Gove . She is the first woman to hold this position in the Lord Chancellor's millennial history. During the cabinet reshuffle after the 2017 general election , she moved to the Treasury as State Secretary.

bibliography

• The Value of Mathematics. June 2008.
• A new level. June 2009.
• Academic rigor and social mobility: how low income students are being kept out of top jobs. March 2011.
• A decade of gains - learning lessons from Germany. February 2012.
• Affordable quality: new approaches to childcare. May 2012.
• After the coalition. 2011.
• Britannia Unchained. 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 59418, HMSO, London, May 13, 2010, p. 8744 ( PDF , accessed June 21, 2010, English).
2. ^ Anushka Asthana: The lady's for turning, right from CND to Conservative . In: The Times , June 9, 2012. Retrieved July 30, 2012. 
3. ↑ BBC News: Theresa May's new cabinet: Michael Gove and Nicky Morgan axed . Retrieved July 14, 2016.
4. ↑ cosmopolis.ch

Web links

• Official website of Elizabeth Truss
• Free Enterprise Group website
• Profile on the Conservative Party website