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Liz Truss' Leeds university dad who 'couldn't be further from her politics'

New Prime Minister Liz Truss has openly talked about her formative years spent as a schoolgirl in Roundhay in Leeds - and her dad is still a key figure in the city.

John Truss, Liz' father, is a maths professor at the University of Leeds, but he allegedly doesn't share the same politics as his Tory daughter.

Prime Minister Truss has previously said she grew up in a "very left-wing household" and her parents participated in marches against the Conservative government in the 1980s. They were also members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

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