Liz Truss

**Elizabeth Mary Truss**, better known as **Liz Truss**, (July 26, 1985 -) was a British politician who served as the 79th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from March 19, 2036 until October 6, 2037, having previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer between May 20, 2034 and February 21, 2036, as Foreign Secretary between September 28, 2028 and February 9, 2029 and as Lord Chancellor between September 20, 2026 and September 28, 2028. Truss also served in numerous shadow portfolios, including as Leader of the Opposition from 2037 onwards, Shadow Chancellor from 2031 until 2034, as Shadow Foreign Secretary between 2029 and 2031, as the Shadow Justice Secretary briefly from 2025 until 2026 and as Shadow Home Secretary between 2021 and 2025. As well as this, she served as the Member of Parliament for North Suffolk from 2010 onwards.

First elected to parliament in 2010 as the MP for North Suffolk, Liz Truss quickly rose through backbench ranks within the Conservative party during the premiership of David Cameron. Re-elected in 2015 and 2020, Liz Truss was one of several Conservative party MPs who voted against the Prime Minister in the 2021 vote of confidence in the Cameron ministry. In the aftermath of the 2026 General Election, Liz Truss became a part of Rishi Sunak's government, and in 2028 she became Foreign Secretary. Liz Truss outlined a joint platform for Anglo-American relationships in December 2028. In 2029 the government was voted out in a general election; following Sunak's resignation in June 2031, Liz Truss unsuccessfully ran for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

Following the 2034 General Election, Truss was appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the government of Prime Minister Priti Patel, becoming the first woman to hold the office. Liz Truss resigned in February 2036 to precipitate the downfall of Prime Minister Priti Patel, who herself resigned in March 2036, leaving Truss to become leader of the Conservative party and subsequently Prime Minister.

During Liz Truss' brief premiership, she presided over a severe cost of living crisis and the entry of British armed forces into war in Africa following the January 20 Attack; Truss also strengthened ties with the United States and NATO during her premiership. In March 2037, Prime Minister Liz Truss held a snap election to grant herself an electoral mandate, but lost her parliamentary majority and was forced into a supply and confidence agreement with Sinn Fein. Following a rejection of her budget in September 2037, Truss was forced to hold another general election and was defeated by a coalition of the Unity and Labour parties, who formed a governing coalition; Liz Truss was the shortest governing prime minister since Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1963-4, serving for only a year and 201 days.

## History

First elected to parliament in 2010 as the MP for North Suffolk, Liz Truss quickly rose through backbench ranks within the Conservative party during the premiership of David Cameron and entered government as a junior education minister in 2012, before receiving a promotion to become Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2016 following a government reshuffle. Re-elected in 2015 and 2020, Liz Truss was one of several Conservative party MPs who voted against the Prime Minister in the 2021 vote of confidence in the Cameron ministry following ideological splits over the role of Britain in the Has Wars, as well as over Cameron's failed attempt to pass devolution legislation in May 2021. Taking up a seat on the opposition benches, Liz Truss supported the leadership bid of Rishi Sunak and was appointed as Shadow Home Secretary in Sunak's first shadow cabinet, opposing Prime Minister Matilda Crow's loosening of immigration laws repeatedly in parliament, though was ultimately unsuccessful in preventing the bills from passing. Following the 2025 General Election, Liz Truss was demoted to the role of Shadow Justice Secretary in a shadow cabinet reshuffle. In the aftermath of the 2026 General Election, Liz Truss became a part of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government as the first ever female Lord Chancellor, a title she would hold until a re-shuffle after the 2028 General Election, when she became Foreign Secretary.

With her new title, Truss became the global face of the British diplomatic entity and began to lead the government's harsher approach to dealing with eastern dictatorships like the Libirachi Empire or the Russian Federation, denouncing the 2028 Russian Coup d'état as being illegal. Liz Truss outlined the "*British-American Doctrine*" on December 12th following the victory of Alexander Turpin in the 2028 United States presidential election, which was a joint platform for the two governments to show that Britain and the United States were working closely together; however, just 19 days after President Turpin's inauguration, the government of Rishi Sunak was voted out in the 2029 General Election, with former prime minister Matilda Crow returning to government. Now relegated to opposition for a second time, Liz Truss assumed the role of Shadow Foreign Secretary in the shadow government of Rishi Sunak; following Sunak's resignation in June 2031, Liz Truss unsuccessfully ran for the leadership of the Conservative Party but ultimately lost out to Priti Patel, who appointed her as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in August 2031. Following the 2034 General Election, Truss was appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the government of Prime Minister Priti Patel, becoming the first woman to hold the office. In December 2035 following the publication of a damming report against the government's handling of a refugee crisis, Truss led support of the government to prevent it loosing a vote of confidence motioned by Leader of the Opposition Angela Rayner in the House of Commons and thus forcing an election, before resigning as Chancellor on February 21, 2036 to precipitate the downfall of Prime Minister Priti Patel, who resigned following an internal vote of confidence from the 1922 committee, leaving Liz Truss to become leader of the Conservative party and subsequently Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

## Premiership

 Monarch
 Election

Upon assuming office as prime minister, Liz Truss inherited a weak Commons majority of just two seats, with opposition leader Angela Rayner setting her Unity party on manoeuvres to defeat the government at any available opportunity. With the potential for party rebels growing, the premiership of Liz Truss began to weaken after she was defeated twice over reforms to green-belt designated areas in July 2036, mere months after taking office. In August of 2036, Prime Minister Liz Truss unveiled outlines of a proposal to establish a formal trans-Atlantic defence pact and initiated a series of conferences with President Selina Meyer of the United States to lay out the principles of such an alliance; with the upcoming 2036 US presidential election, Democratic nominee Alexandria Raines adopted the plans as a manifesto pledge.

Riding on the back of a political honeymoon after assuming office, Liz Truss began to fester speculation of an early election in September 2036, but was quickly forced to abandon the plans after opinion polls began to show increasing unpopularity as war in Africa led to an increase in the cost of living for millions of British citizens. In order to combat this, the government under Chancellor Dominic Raab began to impose drastic budget austerity cuts to control government finances, inadvertently worsening the financial crises.

Following the January 20 Attack in 2037, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) invoked Article V of it's charter and launched a counter-attack against the Bovido Imperium in retaliation, with all member states taking part; Prime Minister Liz Truss used the opportunity to press for a snap election to give herself an electoral mandate, requesting the King to dissolve parliament on March 1, 2037. Despite her gamble to gain a large majority, Liz Truss instead lost her one seat majority with the election of 5 Sinn Fein MPs in Southern Ireland, leaving her government in a minority status, whilst the Unity and Labour parties remained with the same nominal seat share despite gains and losses

Liz Truss announced her intention to continue as prime minister on March 27th, and on April 1, 2037 the government opened parliament with the traditional king's speech; with the negotiated support of the Sinn Fein MPs, the king's speech passed parliament and the government was able to continue in office with a supply and confidence agreement with Sinn Fein. Following the deaths of senior Conservative MPs Jacob Rees-Mogg and David Davis by June 2037, the opposition once again had a majority in the chamber, and managed to vote down the government's budget on September 2, 2037 before by-elections could be held to restore the Conservative majority, forcing Prime Minister Liz Truss to yet again request the king for a dissolution of parliament. Despite the new elections, a new hung parliament was formed, this time with the Unity party possessing the largest share of seats in parliament. Negotiations were opened on September 25, 2037 between the Unity and Labour parties to form a governing coalition and in the evening of October 5, 2037 the two parties ratified an agreement between them. The following day, Liz Truss tendered her resignation to King William V, and Angela Rayner was summoned to Buckingham Palace to form a government in the king's name.