Who is Liz Truss and will she make it to be the next Prime Minister?

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Liz Truss will face Rishi Sunak for the Tory leadership crown as the pair battle it out for the votes of party members.There was no love lost between Truss and Sunak in the two early TV debates, so much so that other appearances were cancelled to avoid the “blue on blue” bloodshed that is already being fired back at the Tories by Labour.Her strengths and weaknesses will be on show over the next six weeks to Tory members and the public but right now she is the favourite to replace Boris Johnson.So, as a potential Prime Minister it is time to get to know Liz Truss a bit better.Born in Oxford in 1975 to parents she describes as “left-wing”, Truss moved to Paisley at the age of four when her father became a lecturer at the then local college.Living not far from the Faslane nuclear submarine base, Truss’s mother, a nurse and a teacher, took her to marches for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1980s and to the peace camp set up close to the base.Talking to the BBC’s Nick Robinson about the experience she recalled shouting the famous anti-Thatcher slogans of the time.Speaking in her now Yorkshire accent, she told Robinson: “It was in Scottish so it was ‘Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, oot, oot, oot.”READ MORE: Liz Truss struggles with Scottish supportersThe family upped sticks to Leeds, where Truss attended the Roundhay state secondary school before studying philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University.There she became active in student politics, first with the Liberal Democrats.

Some footage has been uncovered of her as a self-declared anti-monarchist student but she soon changed course.Although she was president of Oxford University Liberal Democrats while studying, Truss joined the Conservative Party in 1998.Yea