Who is Liz Truss?

It's a political journey which has taken her from Liberal Democrat to Tory and Remainer to Brexit-enthusiast.

As Liz Truss becomes Prime Minister, Sky’s Tamara Cohen looks at her surprise ascent.

[hanselmansell]

Liberal, Tory, Republican, Monarchist, Anti nuclear, Pro nuclear, Remainer, Brexiteer.. this thing of a person will literally do or say absolutely anything to get where she wants, God help us! 🙏

[Alastair_]

The fact that the first video I see posted about the new leader of the UK is "Who is Liz Truss" tells me everything I need to know about this person. She's as far removed from me (Working class man in Scotland) as I am to a Zebra.

[robi]

I bet she has a great plan for her rich mates and donors.

[markwelch]

"Who is Liz Truss?"

_Maybe_ they should have tried to answer this _before_ making her Prime Minister? 🤔

[amc]

She's the mad cheese woman who is in charge of the country. I thought it couldn't get any worse, how wrong I was 😫

[justsoup]

Her first job should be sacking the Tory lapdogs and stepping down

[matthewhardwick]

I think that people of this country are more interested in what she's going to do about our bills increasing. Not about her life history 😅

[grahamturner]

Pestilence, War, Famine and Truss. 💀

[andrewthomson]

I think we should all wish Liz the very best of luck. Given her lack of charm, warmth, compassion, wit, self-awareness, diplomacy and intelligence, it's really all she'll have

[australiaprisonisland]

By not declaring an affair with a married conservative MP.

[dmccarthy]

Her over the top speech praising Johnson, more less suggested Johnson's support gave her the premiership, while she may be right, this could come back and haunt her as she strives to deal with the problems created by Johnson's gross incompetence over two and a half years of his dreadful misgovernance.

[johndavies]

81, 325 voted to make Truss Prime Minister. 124, 00 voting for Boaty McBoatface made more sense and that was overruled.

[roserose-gtif]

When she praised boris to that extent and there was a pause before applause, that was the moment all her voters had a sharp intake of breath and groaning at being manipulated 🤣

[jlennoxx]

I hate to be blunt but the truth is we don’t care. With everything going on we don’t need her history. We need to know her plans to deal with the present issues and what her future plans are for the UK…

[stephenreggio]

the problem is british people dont elect their leader directly, thats the issue

[rosienorton]

Oh God. I can't look at that vacant grin for the next two years.

[pablobablo]

Brexit and now this UK is truly fkd!
Not a fan of Rishi but seriously Truss over Rishi??

[ianwatson]

Lizz truss ....'PM , God help us all.

[azimriaz]

Insulting another leader of a country calling her an attention seeker and to ignore her and bin her right to have a say on independence shes already going to bring this country down to its knees whos next to break the country more we need a miracle to get out of this mess no politicians apply to be prime minister we need someone outside politics.

[VanlifewithAlan]

So she is going to be PM for less time than her two predecessors.