“People may know about me that I have a bit of a dubious past,” she told Conservative party members assembled in Eastbourne last month, addressing her past liberal indiscretions. It’s clear that Truss knew some backpedalling was required to help her ascend the Tory ranks. Where do you stop?” This position was confirmed by her office in 2017 and she was absent during a vote on cannabis regulation the following year. In an interview with the NME ahead of the 2001 UK general election, she was asked about her opinion regarding recent efforts to legalise the plant. Since graduating from uni in 1996 and transforming into a Tory, she swiftly changed her stance on weed. by Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg set as her phone alarm (lyrics include “ Still puffing my leafs …Still not loving police”) – when it comes to drug policy, our new prime minister is an enigma.
“We were setting up the Freshers Fair stall, Liz was there with a pile of posters – she just wanted the whole stall to be covered.” He added: “I was scurrying around after Liz trying to take these down and put up a variety of messages, rather than just this one message all over the stall.”ĭespite this – and the fact she has appointed a Health Secretary who has Still D.R.E.
“Liz had a very strong radical liberal streak to her,” Alan Renwick, a fellow Lib Dem student at Oxford, told the BBC in 2017. During her tenure as leader of Oxford University’s Liberal Democrat society in the 1990s, Liz Truss peppered the freshers stall she was manning with posters that read “Free the Weed”.