Truss Went From Anti-Thatcher Protests to UK Tory Darling
- Foreign secretary is favorite to beat Sunak and become premier
- Truss went from remainer to embracing Brexit and riling EU
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Liz Truss has undergone a political reinvention to become the favorite to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative party and UK Prime Minister.
The Foreign Secretary campaigned for Britain to remain in the European Union before embracing Brexit with the zeal of a convert after the vote went the other way. And she’s gone from yelling slogans as a child against Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s Conservative government and leading Oxford University’s Liberal Democrat society to become the darling of the Tory Party right.