Liz Truss family

2022 - 9 - 6

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Pizza nights and sleepovers? How Liz Truss's children may cope ... (The Guardian)

It is rare for prime ministers not to come to Downing Street with children in tow: David Cameron was the first prime minister to take paternity leave while in ...

Norma Major took it to a further extreme and lived separately with the young children in Huntingdon for some of the time her husband, John, was prime minister. “But I don’t want to go,” wailed the six-year-old. Guests in the Cameron Downing Street living room were expected to balance kids on their knees. But exactly how – and, indeed, whether – the new prime minister blends work and family in Downing Street remains to be seen. Recalling a war cabinet meeting that he attended, Stothard wrote that “in the half-darkness, the rooms resemble the site of a hastily finished children’s party. All the security arrangements make it incredibly hard for people to come and go,”

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Britain's new First Family: who are Liz Truss's husband and ... (Evening Standard)

The new PM's husband has been called an “earnest”, “unassuming”, Philip May-type character, while Truss says her daughters are helping with her fashion and ...

“I was in favour of having scorecards but I’m afraid the rest of them weren’t,” the new PM recently admitted of their lockdown Come Dine With Me competition. “I do enjoy cooking as a way of relaxing but I haven’t been doing very much of it recently, to be honest,” Truss said in July. She says he’s “incredibly supportive” when it comes to childcare, working from home as a house-husband alongside nannies and au pairs, and taking the girls to Disney World in Florida without her this summer while she focused on her leadership bid. Will she and her ex-husband be forced to take on greater grandparents’ duties now their daughter is in office? But Truss and her husband chose to stay together and have remained fiercely tight-lipped over the affair ever since. She graduated in 1996 and switched from the Lib Dems to the Conservatives, much to the dismay of her parents. Others have called him “dry-witted” and say he has been happy to take a back seat in the leadership race, preferring to stay at home as a house-husband. Will that change when the family pose for a Blair-style photo on Downing Street steps — or will that fierce protection of their rights to privacy continue now she’s in office? While her idol Margaret Thatcher’s daughter Carol was known for complaining she felt neglected, the new PM says she has involved her daughters in her job since they were babies “so they’ve been brought up on politics”. In the end, she decided that family ties should win out,” a former neighbour recalls of Priscilla’s dilemma over whether to support her daughter after the divorce. Either way, one thing seems certain: the girls are clearly keen to keep their own lives (and faces) out of the political spotlight, for now. And what exactly do we know about him and the daughters set to grow up under the spotlight of Downing Street?

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What Liz Truss's children should expect at No 10 (The Times)

The Conservative leader's daughters already manage her social media and are her political advisers. So what will life be like for the first teenagers in Downing ...

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