Liz Truss (Anglosphere)

## Liz Truss

Truss in 2019.

**Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Truss** was an Anglophone politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2022 to 2024. Known for her libertarian views, Truss was notorious for causing the collapse of the British Economy in 2023 and was deemed by many scholars to be the worst Prime Minister in the UK's history. Many blame her for the economic collapse, leading to the nation's annexation by the United States in 2026. She was the second-to-last Prime Minister of the UK, with Keir Starmer witnessing the annexation of the country in 2026.

## Biography

Born in Oxford in what is now the state of Mercia, Truss ironically grew up in a leftist-leaning family. She would first become involved in politics in the mid-90s, when she was the president of the Oxford University Liberal Democrats, and when she was 19, Truss made a speech advocating for the abolishment of the monarchy, which would eventually come back and haunt her almost 30 years later.

After several unsuccessful runs, Truss entered the House of Commons in 2010, and later became the Secretary of the Environment in 2014. During her time in this role, Truss lifted bans and also cut taxes, something which she would later be known for, in-line with her libertarian views. She later worked in several positions, first as Justice Secretary and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury under British Prime Minister Theresa May, then as the International Trade Secretary under Boris Johnson, before climbing her way to become the Foreign Secretary in 2021.

In her 10-month career as the foreign secretary of the UK, Truss showed a hardline anti-EU and anti-Russia stance, including her advocacy of sanctions against Russia after they invaded Ukraine. After Boris Johnson announced his resignation in July 2022, Truss announced her candidacy, and became a media favorite to take over as the next Prime Minister. Despite nearly getting eliminated by the darkhorse Penny Mordaunt, Truss won against Rishi Sunak (who became the Prime Minister of the Anglosphere in 2041) and became the UK's third female Prime Minister. When she took over, the UK was dangerously close to a recession, with the Pound Sterling exchange rate being its lowest since records began in the 80s, combined with industrial strikes and soaring energy prices. Her political stances didn't help either, and many detractors believed that Truss will be a disaster and will lose the next general election to the Labour Party.

The 1994 speech about abolishing the monarchy came to bite her back, when the long-time monarch Queen Elizabeth II died less than 50 hours after Truss' appointment. Later conspiracy theories suggested that Truss deliberately killed the Queen when she was being appointed, though most historians agree that Truss' appointment and the Queen's death was just an unfortunate coincidence. Regardless, the death of a monarch who was beloved by most Britons only made Truss' job as the Prime Minister even harder, as she was forced to face head-on against the weakest UK ever since Clement Attlee's situation in 1945.

Her tenure as the Prime Minister would be short, lasting just over 2 years, but her policies would be attributed by many as the driving factor of the total collapse of the British economy. With each policy aiming to reduce taxes, the Pound tumbled in value more and more until April of 2023, when, after Truss announced that she'll bring back the disastrous "Mini-Budget" she proposed six months earlier, the Pound fell below the dollar, resulting in the FTSE crashing in value, while many investors sold their stocks in the UK. The end results? The British Pound Sterling was practically rendered useless by the end of 2023, with inflation rates hitting over 60% as the Pound-Dollar exchange rate fell to just over 0.3.

Foreign diplomacy wise, Truss did nothing to help the UK from improving its relationship with anyone else except America, with her hawkish approach to the EU problem and Russia resulting in a tense border with Ireland for the former, and a complete severing of relations for the latter. Truss also attempted to sanction China even more and caused the adverse effect of Chinese citizens not coming to the UK for education, leaving the UK with even less money than they ever had. While the New Depression certainly ruined the economies of many countries across the world, the UK took the brunt of the storm, having lost a whopping 20% of their GDP by the time Truss left office in 2024, with a worthless pound and widespread riots and strikes in all corners of the country.

Despite multiple VONC votes against her, Truss survived until the end of her term in 2024, where she was mocked by Deputy Leader of the British Labour Party (now a part of the Anglican Labour) Angela Rayner for managing to "deliver, deliver, deliver" the largest wipeout ever seen by an Anglophone nation since WW2 - 524 to Labour, and a measly 35 to the Conservatives, all of which scattered across the remote parts of Southern UK. Truss attempted to persist on afterwards, but she was eventually kicked out of her own party in early 2025 as soon as her last VONC vote cooldown expired.

Post-Premiership, Truss suffered from a number of mental issues, including stress, anxiety and eventually depression. Her daughters were bullied in school, being used as hate targets for something their mother did; her husband divorced her in 2026 to safeguard his own reputation, while Truss herself was heckled pretty much everywhere she went in the former UK. As soon as the Anglosphere was confirmed, Truss became even more hated by many Britons for practically selling out their country to the US, as many American tycoons bought British companies during the New Depression. Truss herself emigrated to Georgia, but the stress overwhelmed her, and she died from a heart attack on May 13th, 2027, while on holiday at Tampa, with her younger daughter Liberty O'Leary by her side.

Upon the news of her death, the BBC didn't make it their headline, instead running the news of a future merger between France, Germany and Benelux being "likely to happen" (the merger occurred 2 years later) as their headline. It was still the top-read news article for 3 days however, and when the news broke, former Britons flooded the streets of London, and her death was celebrated all across Great Britain, with a video of her former opponent in the Leadership Election Rishi Sunak dancing with others with the tune "Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead" going viral on social media. That week, the top trending on Twitter in the UK was "RIP Bozo", and the parties celebrating the death of someone practically despised in the British-Anglophone states continued well into the night.

## Legacy

Truss is hated by virtually everyone in the former UK. Many blame her as the deciding factor in the nation's annexation to the US and causing the British economic collapse. The British Conservatives (now a part of the National Conservative Party) sees her as causing the fall of conservatism and the party in general, while Labour often mocks her for allowing their party to rise to power, and eventually started their Red Wave era as the Anglican Labour Party in the 2030s. Many people outside of the UK also despises her for causing the New Depression and allowing the US to grow in strength with the Anglosphere Union. She is often blamed for causing the death of Queen Elizabeth II, which has evolved into a conspiracy theory that Truss poisoned the Queen with her handshake. Her extreme unpopularity was best seen with her untimely death in 2027, which saw as much as 500,000 Britons flooding the streets of Central London alone.

In recent times, Truss has been viewed in a more positive light, with many historians saying that Truss was dealing with extremely unfavorable circumstances with the looming depression, global tensions and a weak economy, and that she was trying to fix it in her own image, something that all politicians will do. Scholars also argued that the seeds of chaos were already laid during her predecessors' premiership, and she couldn't have prevented an economic crisis even if she hadn't done anything. Her daughter Frances later became a politician herself and became a prominent member in the Liberal Democrats as the deputy leader and a senator for England and has been known for defending her mother's legacy by claiming that she did believe in libertarianism but was misled by her beliefs with her ideas of abolishing taxes. She has stated that her mother should have improved on the foundations the previous leaders implemented, instead of destroying it and attempting to rebuild with her own ideas. However, Truss is still seen by the older generation as a traitor to the British people, with the states of Lancashire and Yorkshire (two Labour strongholds) going as far as to declare May 13th as "Victory over Libertarianism Day", or VL Day.