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Liz Trus was 9 when she enacted Thatcher in a mock election at school, the BBC reported. She apparently got "zero votes -- I didn't even vote for myself".

Though she got "frustrated" after she was "compared to Margaret Thatcher", the media reported. When asked whether she models herself on the former Tory prime minister, she disagreed with the accusation, saying: "I don't accept that, I am my own person".

Truss has worked for three former prime ministers. She was promoted by David Cameron to environment secretary and worked as justice secretary under Theresa May. She was eventually made foreign secretary by Boris Johnson in 2021.

Truss will become the third female Prime Minister of UK. All female prime ministers so far have been Conservative. Truss is 47, married and has two daughters. After university she worked as an accountant for Shell, and Cable & Wireless, and married fellow accountant Hugh O'Leary in 2000. The family lives in Thetford, Norfolk, the BBC reported. Before she entered the leadership contest, many knew her from a speech to the Tory Party Conference in 2014 where she enthusiastically promoted British cheese and pork.

She is expected to make long-term ally Kwasi Kwarteng chancellor, with Suella Braverman moving to the Home Office and James Cleverly to the Foreign Office, the Daily Mail reported.

Kwarteng would be the fourth non-white chancellor in a row, directly following Sajid Javid, Rishi Sunak and Nadhim Zahawi. And Braverman would become the third minority home secretary, after Priti Patel and Javid. Cleverly, currently the Education Secretary, would become the first ever non-white foreign Secretary, the Daily Mail reported.

Into the political wilderness too will go Michael Gove, after serving under the three previous PMs. Dominic Raab, the First Secretary of State, and Boris Johnson himself, are expected to return to the backbenches.

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Both have question marks over whether they can hold on to their seats at the next election. There is also expected to be a clear out of political advisers within No 10. The Times suggests only a handful of long-serving advisers will be kept on as Truss seeks to slim down the operation.