Chris Mason: No honeymoon period for next PM Liz Truss
Political survivor Liz Truss has triumphed, but in Downing Street she will be confronted by multiple problems. …
She served on Greenwich Council, in south-east London, and fought an unwinnable parliamentary seat in the 2001 general election. At the 2005 general election, she came a distant second in a Labour-leaning marginal. Yet ahead of the 2010 general election, she had become the Conservative candidate for a safe Tory seat, South West Norfolk.