On 6 September 2022 Liz Truss travelled to Balmoral in Scotland for an appointment with HM the Queen. According to established convention, as leader of the largest party in the House of Commons, she was invited by the monarch to become Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and asked to form a government on behalf of the Crown. In accepting, Truss became the fourth Conservative Party prime minister in a little over 6 years (Table 1).
The MP for South West Norfolk has had a comparatively rapid rise to Number 10 following her election to Parliament in 2010. Liz Truss’s first cabinet position was as environment secretary in David Cameron’s government in 2014. She went on to serve under Cameron as justice secretary, then under Theresa May as chief secretary to the Treasur y. Appointments as international trade secretary and most recently foreign secretary under Boris Johnson followed.
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