Tanya Gold "Good luck, Liz Truss" The Guardian (3 November 2009).
• Following attempts to deselect the newly chosen South-West Norfolk Conservative party candidate for the 2010 general election over reports of an extra-marital affair.
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I knew Truss at university. She was a library-bound anorak, with no lingering smell of depravity about her small, neat form. I never saw her drag a married man into a recess at a political meeting and ravish him on a pile of electoral reform leaflets. If she is debauched then I am the devil herself. But Truss had the courage and ambition to enter British politics. I did not.

— Tanya Gold

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I knew Truss at university. She was a library-bound anorak, with no lingering smell of depravity about her small, neat form. I never saw her drag a married man into a recess at a political meeting and ravish him on a pile of electoral reform leaflets. If she is debauched then I am the devil herself. But Truss had the courage and ambition to enter British politics. I did not." in the context of "Tanya Gold "Good luck, Liz Truss" The Guardian (3 November 2009).
• Following attempts to deselect the newly chosen South-West Norfolk Conservative party candidate for the 2010 general election over reports of an extra-marital affair." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Liz Truss

About Liz Truss

Mary Elizabeth Truss (born 26 July 1975), known as Liz Truss, is a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party. She resigned from these posts on 20 October 2022, after only six weeks. Before her appointment as the British PM on 6 September 2022, in succession to Boris Johnson, she served as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs from September 2021. Earlier in her career, she held posts as Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade from July 2019 in Boris Johnson's cabinet. Following the resignation of Amber Rudd, she gained the additional position as the Minister for Women and Equalities in September 2019.