Liz Truss has been announced as the next Tory party leader and Prime Minister of the UK after beating Rishi Sunak by 21,000 votes.

In total, Ms Truss received 81,326 votes from the Tory membership compared to Mr Sunak’s 60,399.

It means that Ms Truss, currently the Foreign Secretary, will be asked to form a government tomorrow after Boris Johnson steps down.

Now that she has been announced as the new Prime Minister, she’ll be packing her bags for Number 10 – but just who would be moving in with her?

Here’s all you need to know abut Ms Truss’ family life.

Who is Liz Truss’s husband?

Liz Truss is married to accountant Hugh O’Leary.

The couple first met in 1997 at the Tory Party conference, with Ms Truss recalling their first date in a 2019 interview with You magazine, saying: ‘I invited him ice-skating and he sprained his ankle.’

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The couple were married in 2000.

Their union hit a rocky patch in 2006, after her affair with the then-married Tory MP Mark Field was made public.

However Ms Truss’ marriage survived, and she said in the same 2019 interview that she is ‘really happily married’.

She has previously joked that her husband’s tenure at the London School Of Economics comes in handy, saying: ‘Whenever I want a late night discussion about supply side reform or econometrics, there’s always someone on hand.’

Does Liz Truss have children?

Ms Truss and Mr O’Leary have two daughters, Liberty and Frances.

Both daughters are kept largely out of the public eye and off of her social media (although she does sometimes post snaps of their birthday cakes on Instagram).

However, she has previously spoken about her daughter Liberty’s influence when it comes to her style, with the MP telling You: ‘She introduces me to places I wouldn’t think of much’ – while she has also alluded to her rules on screen time.

Ms Truss told Pienaar’s Politics in 2018 that she had locked her daughter’s phone in a box to stop her from using it too much, saying: ‘I’m known as the phone jailer in our household.’

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However, she has more recently revealed that she is enlisting their help in her leadership campaign, with Frances assisting on the social media front.

 ‘My oldest daughter’s working on the digital team,’ Ms Truss told the Telegraph.

‘She’s done a computing GCSE so she’s helping out on that. And my younger daughter was there as well, giving general political advice.’

Where does Liz Truss live?

According to her website, Ms Truss and her family live in a three-bedroom detached house in Thetford, a market town and civil parish in Norfolk.

They have lived there since around 2010, with the location allowing her to be close to her constituency of South West Norfolk, where she has served as MP for the past 12 years.

She divides her time between there and a property in London – while she has also had a third home at her disposal – Chevening House, a countryside mansion located between Biggin Hill and Sevenoaks in Kent.

She and Dominic Raab have shared access to the property since she took over from him as Foreign Secretary in 2021.

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