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Liz Truss, one of two remaining candidates in the Conservative Party leadership election, has been the new Conservative leader replacing Boris Johnson.Truss, 46, was born in Oxford, England to left-wing parents. Her father was a university professor and her mother a nurse and teacher. She studied philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at Oxford University -- the degree of choice at the university of choice for Britain's political elite. She was president of the Oxford University Liberal Democrats, the left-liberal party's student branch.She joined the Conservative Party after graduation. Before politics, she worked for oil and gas company Shell and telecommunications company Cable & Wireless. She is married and has two children.Truss was elected to parliament in 2010, representing South West Norfolk. She served in a number of government positions under David Cameron's premiership and was a profile figure on the Remain side of the 2016 Brexit referendum. Under Theresa May's premiership, Truss was justice secretary, then chief secretary to the Treasury, who is second-in-command to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. After May's resignation and under Boris Johnson's premiership, she was international trade secretary and then foreign secretary, a position she still holds. This makes her one of the Conservative government's longest-serving and most senior Cabinet members. In 2012, she co-authored a neoliberal book with some other Conservative Party colleagues called Britannia Unchained. (Footage by Anadolu Agency Video News /Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)