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born 1975
Mary Elizabeth Truss (born 26 July 1975), known as Liz Truss, is a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party. She resigned from these posts on 20 October 2022, after only six weeks.
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What people in the Leave campaign are saying is "We can have our cake and eat it". We can't.
I would rather be at the table making decisions with other countries than walking away and not having a say.
We need to look like we're enjoying ourselves because no one wants to go to a party where everyone is looking miserable.
Is there anything more sexist than claiming your gender determines your worldview/behaviour/attitude?
If we didn't have quotas there would be overfishing and we would have no fish left.
If it came down to a straight choice of revoking Brexit and a no-deal, I would choose no-deal.
I embrace the chaos. I'm a thrillseeker.
EU membership brings economic security, peace and stability
I am a fighter, not a quitter.
Thank you for putting your trust in me. I’m ready to hit the ground from day one.
I do think sometimes politics is sort of treated as a branch of the entertainment industry, who's up, who's down, who says what about who.
I voted against a delay to Brexit.
Q: President Macron, friend or foe?
President Trump ... has been proven right about pretty much everything and now he is trying to do something about it, the elite is howling with indiscriminate outrage.
[On the Daily Star livestream, in her last days as PM, to see if her period in office could outlast a lettuce] I don't think it was particularly funny, I think it's puerile.
I am not claiming to be blameless in what happened, but fundamentally I was not given a realistic chance to enact my policies by a very powerful economic establishment, coupled with a lack of political support.
I feel like I’m a child of the union, I really believe we’re a family and we’re better together and I think the best thing to do with Nicola Sturgeon is ignore her. [...] She’s an attention seeker, that’s what she is.
I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse. I've fallen into that trap in the past and I'm not going to fall into it again. I'm now more honest about what I think.
Now people are joining the civil service who are essentially activists – they might be trans activists, they might be environmental extremists – but they are now having a voice within the civil service in a way I don't think was true 30 or 40 years ago, so we just have a wholly new problem. And frankly, 100 political appointees [aides], doesn't even touch the sides in terms of dealing with that.
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