The past six years have been a turbulent and controversial time in British politics. Through them all, one person consistently delivered progress, not deflected by the chaos around her. As others made headlines, Liz Truss made deals.
Having been environment secretary under David Cameron, Truss was justice secretary and lord chancellor then chief secretary to the Treasury under Theresa May, before moving on to become trade secretary, minister for women and foreign secretary under Boris Johnson. Experience at Environment, Justice, the Treasury, Trade, Women and Foreign Affairs provide the perfect background of experience – a suite and breadth that no other candidate in the race comes even close to matching.
A Truss administration will be a conservative administration. It will seek to trust markets once again, to keep spending and taxes low and get the debt down
That matters for a prime minister. There are good reasons everyone that has taken over mid-term as a prime minister for well over a hundred years has held one of the great offices of state: foreign secretary, chancellor or home secretary.
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