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She is a scourge of wokery, political correctness and “fashionable” thinking. She was raised by Labour-supporting parents and was a Liberal Democrat in her late teens she attended a northern comprehensive school and went on to acquire a convert’s zeal for free markets, low taxes and small government. Like Thatcher, she is not of the establishment. To her admirers, Truss is a second Margaret Thatcher – an image she does little to discourage. She is now in the final round of the race alongside Sunak, and is probably the preferred candidate of most right-wing Tories. Within hours of Johnson resigning as Conservative Party leader on 7 July, Truss had cut short her attendance at a G20 meeting in Indonesia and announced her bid to replace him shortly after. “I reject any sense that there’s leadership manoeuvring. “She’s 100 per cent focused on being Foreign Secretary,” he said. He flatly denied the Foreign Secretary had her eyes on No 10. In the distant days of mid-June, I spoke to a source close to Liz Truss.
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