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New U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss says year in B.C. ‘changed my outlook on life’
Liz Truss set to become Britain’s next prime minister amid soaring energy prices But decades before she took a seat at the head of the cabinet table, Truss spent a year in Burnaby, B.C., while her father, a mathematician, worked at Simon Fraser University.A post shared by Liz Truss (@elizabeth.truss.mp)In 2018, Truss posted on Instagram of her Grade 7 class at Parkcrest Elementary School, saying the experience “changed her outlook on life.”She has identified herself in the photo as the girl wearing the “pink jumper” with a “big fringe.”Brenda Montagano, now a Grade 4 to 7 teacher herself at Parkcrest, was one of the other children in the photo.“We remember her kind of coy, witty sense of humour — she would tell a joke and have kind of this half-smile, and fit in with us because we were very similar at that age, that kind of sarcastic humour,” she told Global News. New U.K.