Revealed: Liz Truss’s youthful escapades
One of the more amusing aspects of the Tory leadership race has been various reminders of Liz Truss’s misspent youth. Whether it was leafleting for the Liberal Democrats, running for the party’s student executive or causing trouble at the university, Truss certainly had something of a political journey before opting for a conventional route into Conservative politics. And, still, the greatest hits keep on coming. For tucked away in the LSE archives are copies of the Free Radical – the former newspaper of the Lib Dem youth wing. And who should author an article in the summer 1994 edition making an impassioned case for the lowering of the voting age?
