Conservative leadership race: Who is Liz Truss? – “Liz For Leader”
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss launched her bid – Liz For Leader – last week. She has long been thought of as Boris Johnson’s successor and according to polls, she is popular among Tory Party members in this Conservative leadership race. But who is Liz Truss? What are Liz Truss’s policies? And how about the Liz Truss election results so far.
She has been an MP since 2010 and began rising up the ministerial ladder soon after entering parliament.
She is the longest continuously serving member of the cabinet, having held positions under David Cameron, Theresa May and Mr Johnson.
She is popular amongst the right of the party.
What are Liz Truss’s policies?
She used her “Liz For Leader” campaign launch speech to echo Boris Johnson’s promise to “get things done.”
She has pledged to cut taxes for businesses and families so that they aren’t “penalised for taking time out to care for children and elderly relatives”.
She went on to promise “low tax, low regulation zones” to target investment to specific parts of the country – as part of the “levelling up” project.
She has promised to reverse April’s increase in national insurance contributions and “get the private sector growing faster than the public sector.”
She says this will put the UK on an “upward economic trajectory by 2024” but warned: “it will be tough and it will take time.”
Truss has pledged to “take the vital steps necessary” to protect the Good Friday Agreement, “solve the serious problems the protocol is causing” and deliver on the opportunities that Brexit presents.
Truss has pledged to raise defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP by 20230 and would make the UK “the most capable force in Europe” – the extra money would help accelerate the delivery of cutting-edge defence technologies.
Liz Truss election results – so far
Round 1 results
Round 2 results
Round 3 results
