The Conservative leader's daughters already manage her social media and are her political advisers. So what will life be like for the first teenagers in Downing ...
Hugh O'Leary will join Liz Truss in Downing Street after his wife won the Conservative leadership contest.
Three years after meeting, Liz Truss and Hugh O’Leary married in 2000. Truss later said how she was "really happily married" while going on to describe O’Leary as the love of her life on social media. In 2018, Truss told Hugh O’Leary has been by her side throughout as the 47-year-old has climbed the [political ladder](https://www.walesonline.co.uk/all-about/politics). In fact, Truss and O’Leary originally met at a With a very personal family life during her political career, O’Leary has been largely kept in the background with details not widely known. He met his soon-to-be wife at the 1997 Tory Party Conference before going on their first date not long after. Liz Truss and Hugh O’Leary have two daughters together - Frances and Liberty. Do Liz Truss and Hugh O’Leary have children? Here is everything we know about the new prime minister’s husband. How long have Liz Truss and Hugh O’Leary been married? [Joe Lycett trolled Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak live to their faces](https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/tv/joe-lycett-trolled-liz-truss-24927225)
New Prime Minister Liz Truss is set to move into Downing Street today, alongside her husband and teenage daughters 16-year-old Florence and 13-year-old ...
But the teens are excited, with Truss revealing: "My younger daughter keeps asking would she be able to have sleepovers if I get into No 10,” before she was elected. She sat on my lap, sucking a mint slowly." It was one giant labyrinth to explore" "You are living in a fortress. The Thomas the Tank Engine train set is overflowing its box. Much like the husband or wife of the prime-minister, the children are un-elected and unpaid - and their lives have been changed forever. "Clothes everywhere”, "kids running with pancake pans”, and "like a bomb has gone off”, one friend is said to have used to describe the Truss family home, in Greenwich. This includes acting as the PM'S stylist, with Truss saying Liberty, 13, is "very into the idea of a pop of colour” and tries to get her to shop at shops like New Look. "At the bottom of the stairs, as though beguiling the prime minister to stumble, is a baby-sized drum kit with BAND in large letters on the bass". "The flat is very private but you're living above the shop," she recalled. The pair are said to be thrilled by the prospect - with Liz Truss previously describing them as "very excited" at living in one of the world's most famous addresses It was easier to protect them from the "weirdness" of that world when they were small, but she imagined it would be tougher living in that semi-public home when older.
Liz Truss married Hugh O'Leary in 2000 – they met at the 1997 Tory Party conference and went on a date shortly afterwards. LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 05: ...
[In her acceptance speech](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-speech-today-time-when-watch-live-first-statement-prime-minister-1835258?ico=in-line_link) on Monday Ms Truss said: “Thank you for putting your faith in me to lead our great Conservative Party, the greatest political party on Earth. [The former foreign secretary defeated Rishi Sunak](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-news-live-latest-updates-boris-johnson-queen-resign-new-prime-minister-1835443?ico=in-line_link) in the Tory leadership contest, and will quickly get to work establishing her Cabinet. Mr O’Leary has previously attempted to make his way into politics. They got married three years later and moved to Greenwich in south-east London. [Ms Truss will move into Downing Street with her husband](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/hugh-o-leary-liz-truss-husband-politics-tory-leadership-race-1833309?ico=in-line_link) and two daughters. [Liz Truss has become the new prime minister](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/conservatives/liz-truss-prime-minister-now-when-boris-johnson-leaves-office-new-pm-queen-1833708?ico=in-line_link), replacing Boris Johnson at [10 Downing Street](https://inews.co.uk/news/when-downing-street-built-history-of-no-10-and-who-lives-at-other-houses-on-the-pms-street-1835504?ico=in-line_link).
As Liz Truss tackles a string of challenges as prime minister, her family will be adjusting to a new home and their place in the spotlight as the nation's ...
Liberty, 13, acts as her unofficial fashion guru, also “giving general political advice”, said The Times, while her older daughter, who has done a computing GCSE, has helped with her digital campaign. 10 (or 11), where the back door leads directly into 23-hectare St James’s Park, and are “already planning sleepovers with their friends at Downing Street and Chequers, with its huge lawn and heated swimming pool”. Each successive occupant, from Tony Blair to Boris Johnson but with the exception of Theresa May, has brought “with them their own noisy young families” or welcomed new “babies while there”. He even met his wife-to-be at the Tory party conference in 1997. While it was traditional for the prime minister’s family to occupy the flat at No. 10, ever since the Blairs, each has opted for the more spacious lodgings above No.
Find out more about new Prime Minister Liz Truss' family, including her husband, children and siblings.
“She’s very into the idea of a pop of colour,” Liz said. I don’t think women are better, I just think everyone should have an equal chance and I resent being typecast.” And we will deliver a great victory for the Conservative Party in 2024."
It is rare for prime ministers not to come to Downing Street with children in tow: David Cameron was the first prime minister to take paternity leave while in ...
Norma Major took it to a further extreme and lived separately with the young children in Huntingdon for some of the time her husband, John, was prime minister. “But I don’t want to go,” wailed the six-year-old. Guests in the Cameron Downing Street living room were expected to balance kids on their knees. But exactly how – and, indeed, whether – the new prime minister blends work and family in Downing Street remains to be seen. Recalling a war cabinet meeting that he attended, Stothard wrote that “in the half-darkness, the rooms resemble the site of a hastily finished children’s party. All the security arrangements make it incredibly hard for people to come and go,”
The new PM's husband has been called an “earnest”, “unassuming”, Philip May-type character, while Truss says her daughters are helping with her fashion and ...
“I was in favour of having scorecards but I’m afraid the rest of them weren’t,” the new PM recently admitted of their lockdown Come Dine With Me competition. “I do enjoy cooking as a way of relaxing but I haven’t been doing very much of it recently, to be honest,” Truss said in July. She says he’s “incredibly supportive” when it comes to childcare, working from home as a house-husband alongside nannies and au pairs, and taking the girls to Disney World in Florida without her this summer while she focused on her leadership bid. Will she and her ex-husband be forced to take on greater grandparents’ duties now their daughter is in office? But Truss and her husband chose to stay together and have remained fiercely tight-lipped over the affair ever since. She graduated in 1996 and switched from the Lib Dems to the Conservatives, much to the dismay of her parents. Others have called him “dry-witted” and say he has been happy to take a back seat in the leadership race, preferring to stay at home as a house-husband. Will that change when the family pose for a Blair-style photo on Downing Street steps — or will that fierce protection of their rights to privacy continue now she’s in office? While her idol Margaret Thatcher’s daughter Carol was known for complaining she felt neglected, the new PM says she has involved her daughters in her job since they were babies “so they’ve been brought up on politics”. In the end, she decided that family ties should win out,” a former neighbour recalls of Priscilla’s dilemma over whether to support her daughter after the divorce. Either way, one thing seems certain: the girls are clearly keen to keep their own lives (and faces) out of the political spotlight, for now. And what exactly do we know about him and the daughters set to grow up under the spotlight of Downing Street?