Liz Truss’s change of face from a Liberal Democrat whose radicalism once annoyed Paddy Ashdown to a dyed-in-the-wool Thatcherite has put her at odds with her family and closest friends.
said his uncle Richard Truss, a retired priest in Weybridge, Surrey the times the family has liberalism “in the blood” and “it must still be in the blood too”.
He last saw his niece in March at her 80th birthday party and was “thrilled that she was able to do it after coming back from working overseas”.
Liz Truss’s uncle Richard is a retired priest
He said: “My grandfather lived and died quite young but he used to run and campaign for the Liberals before the First World War so it’s in the genes.
“I think our family, her