Her left-leaning upbringing might surprise you
. I supported our prime minister’s aspirations and I want to deliver the promise of the 2019 manifesto.’. But she soon changed her stance and backed Brexit after the vote went the other way for the benefit of Britain’s ‘economic interest’ and ‘social reform'. After that, she relentlessly pioneered to get us out of the EU in her roles as Trade Secretary and Foreign Secretary.Truss was born in Oxford and grew up in Leeds after her father got a job as a uni professor.
Leeds council deputy leader James Lewis responded: ‘As someone else who attended Leeds City Council schools in the 1980s and early 1990s, I think it’s sad that someone wants to score cheap political points in London by talking down a whole generation of pupils and teachers who struggled through the last period of Conservative austerity cuts.’Truss lives in Norfolk with her husband and accountant Hugh O’Leary and their two daughters Liberty and Frances.
While studying at philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford, Truss became the president of the Liberal Democrats society and joined the Conservatives in 1996 when her views became more right-wing, despite reportedly growing up going on marches with her parents yelling: ‘Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, out, out, out!’
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