Liz Truss, the mutant who wanted to impersonate Margaret Thatcher (and it only took 45 days)

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With his arrival in Downing Street at age 47, Liz Cage resulted in a zig-zag political career. repeatedly helm strokes following your own path ambitions. She filled the most important, but lasted only 45 days, during which historical coincidences had to experience the death of the queen. II. Isabella. enrolled student Liberal Democrats Party at Oxford University, aged essences of the Conservative Party. Who asked from that student tribune in 1994? abolition of the monarchy He joined several of Her Majesty’s cabinets and traveled to Balmoral two days before his death to receive a commission from the Queen to form a government. making Campaign in favor of staying in Europe defends without blushing The most extreme form of Brexit He said he was ready for confrontation with Brussels. Promoted moderate MP David Cameron it was prime minister of the hardest conservatives.

Populist, but without charisma, he told long-lived members, whose future depended on their vote, the economic and ideological fantasies they wanted to hear in the primaries. They rewarded his loyalty to Boris Johnson, who secretly supported him. Truss cried out his excitement neoliberalisma more deregulationand a plan that experts don’t know how to square and can do cost billions, cutting taxes while boosting growth, ignoring runaway inflation. It also aimed to lower the deteriorating Social Security quota, which feeds public health. In 2012 he co-authored a book by conservative startups entitled ‘Britain Unchained’, which warned that the UK economy could decline if the role of the state was not reduced.

greedy appetite for advertising

into the cage introduce yourself and one greedy appetite for advertising. He was accused by his own colleagues of appropriating “undeserved merits”. devoid of intellectual weight. With a little eloquence (“sounds like a robot with half-damaged circuits,” it has been said), he mechanically clings to the slogans he repeats. Even in his party, where less than a third of ‘Tory’ MPs voted for him in the first phase of the election, they doubt his ability to assume the leadership of the government. He was just someone who wasn’t taken very seriously.

Truss’s political ups and downs may not come as a surprise in Westminster circles, but they have made him the black sheep of his family. The eldest of three other brothers, the Conservative leader was born in Oxford into a “very leftist” middle-class home where Labor was voted. Her mother, a nurse and a member of the Committee for Nuclear Disarmament, took her to demonstrations against Margaret Thatcher. Her father, a professor of pure mathematics at the University of Leeds, is “appalled” by the “conversion” of his daughter into “far-right politics”, according to one of his colleagues.

extramarital affair

After flirting with the Liberals while studying a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics, Truss saw fit to join the Conservatives. She worked as an economist at Shell and Cable and Wireless and married an accountant. Hugh O’Learyhas remained anonymous until now. They have two young daughters from the marriage, Liberty and Frances. After several failed attempts to get into Parliament, in 2010 David Cameron pushed him into a safe seat in South West Norfolk. local affiliates They were about to disqualify the candidate and shorten his career.When it was revealed that she was having an affair with Tory MP Mark Field. This cost him marriage. He avoided disqualification and eventually succeeded in becoming a parliamentarian. He entered the Cabinet just two years later and has been climbing the ladder ever since, holding different posts on the teams of the last three prime ministers (Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson).

May appointed the Lord Chancellor head of the Department of Justice but dismissed him in less than a year, because the position was said to be too big for him. As foreign minister, Truss challenged Brussels by promoting the law that unilaterally violated Northern Ireland protocol. A trade conflict with Europe amid Britain’s worst economic crisis in decades would be catastrophic, especially for the British.

The alleged reincarnation of Thatcher

From the springboard of the Outdoors, Truss has actively developed an image on social media. action womanlooking for similarity most iconography of the Margaret Thatcher. There was a photograph similar to the one of the Iron Lady on a tank, on a fighter plane, and one in Moscow’s Red Square wearing a faux fur hat and declaring “stand up to Vladimir Putin”. She appeared in the televised controversy with the necktie blouse that her predecessor had worn many times. The parody gave rise to ridicule and jokes, but it apparently worked with aging conservative members who were willing to believe these parodies. reincarnation.

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