New prime minister Liz Truss has lived in towns all over the UK including Oxford, Paisley, Leeds, Kidderminster and London - as well as a period in Vancouver in Canada.

She was born at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford on July 26, 1975.

At the time her parents, John, a mathematics professor, and Priscilla, a nurse, lived in James Street in Cowley.

Joanna Hodge, a retired philosophy professor who lives in the former Truss home, told the Sunday Times the new PM makes her "ashamed to hold an Oxford degree".

She was still under four when her father's junior research fellowship at Oxford ended and the family moved to Kidderminster where he became a teacher.

Although she received a backlash after saying she "saw kids at my school being let down in Leeds" her school in Roundhay apparently improved in the sixth form and she reportedly received extra tuition that helped her gain acceptance to Merton College, Oxford, to study philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) in 1993.

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Here she joined the Liberal Democrat society and became its president in the spring term of 1995.

A satirical Lib Dem society newspaper, seemingly attributed to Paul Martin, a future Oxford professor who she clashed with as a student, listed the problems with Ms Truss.

"1) Liz is mad. 2) Liz is going out with Malcolm Hutty and he too is mad. 3) Liz has made ideas. 4) Liz shirks work."

She joined the Conservative party after Oxford.

A Merton contemporary told the Sunday Times: "We came out of Oxford and it was the summer of Euro 96 and Britpop then Tony Blair got in. It was a breath of fresh air. The country was full of optimism. To then go and join the Conservative party , I was like: 'How does that happen?' It was really perplexing."

 

 

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