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Section sizes

Section size for Liz Truss (27 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	9,466	9,466
Early life and education (1975–1996)	5,311	5,311
Career	14	35,821
Employment and candidatures (1996–2010)	7,002	7,002
Backbencher (2010–2012)	3,897	3,897
Education under-secretary (2012–2014)	2,561	2,561
Environment secretary (2014–2016)	3,597	3,597
Justice secretary and lord chancellor (2016–2017)	3,216	3,216
Chief secretary to the Treasury (2017–2019)	3,521	3,521
International trade secretary (2019–2021)	4,033	4,033
Foreign secretary (2021–2022)	5,737	7,980
Leadership election (July–September 2022)	2,243	2,243
Premiership (2022)	562	13,180
Cabinet and death of Elizabeth II	3,595	3,595
Domestic policies and mini-budget	2,823	2,823
Government crisis and resignation	6,200	6,200
Post-premiership (2022–present)	1,851	1,851
Political positions	26	3,905
Domestic issues	1,884	1,884
Foreign policy	1,995	1,995
Notes and references	103	103
Sources	14	83,844
Books and journals	5,165	5,165
News	74,738	74,738
Websites and others	3,927	3,927
Further reading	264	264
External links	5,275	5,275
Total	159,020	159,020

Liz Truss' tenure as Foreign Secretary was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 18 November 2022 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Liz Truss. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Riley-Smith, Ben (2023). The Right to Rule: Thirteen Years, Five Prime Ministers and the Implosion of the Tories. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-1-39-981029-6.
Truss, Liz (2024). Ten Years to Save the West. Biteback Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78-590857-6.
Shipman, Tim (2024). Out: How Brexit Got Done and Four Prime Ministers Were Undone. William Collins. ISBN 978-0-00-830894-0.
Seldon, Anthony; Meakin, Jonathan (2024). Truss at 10: 49 Days That Changed Britain. Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1-80-546213-2.
Seldon, Anthony; Meakin, Jonathan; Thoms, Illias; Egerton, Tom (2024). The Impossible Office?: The History of the British Prime Minister—Revised and Updated. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-009-42977-1.