Hugh O'Leary
British accountant (born 1974) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hugh Richard O'Leary (born 19 July 1974) is a British accountant. He is married to Liz Truss, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from September to October 2022.[1]
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| Born | Hugh Richard O'Leary 19 July 1974 Allerton, Liverpool, Merseyside, England |
| Education | London School of Economics |
| Occupation | Accountant |
| Known for | Spouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom (2022) |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Family | O'Leary |
Early life and education
O'Leary was born at Allerton, Liverpool, and raised in Heswall, on the Wirral, as the eldest of three siblings. His mother Susan (née Dunn) was a nurse, and his father John O'Leary was a college lecturer who trained as a solicitor and worked for the legal firm of the Liverpool lawyer Rex Makin.[2][3]
O'Leary attended Birkenhead School, where he studied Mathematics and Further Mathematics at A-level, applying unsuccessfully to Oxford University to study PPE. He went on to read econometrics and mathematical economics at the London School of Economics before becoming an accountant.[3] Whilst at university, he was acquainted with Thérèse Coffey, who was later Liz Truss's deputy prime minister.[4]
Career
O'Leary worked as a finance director at Affinity Global Real Estate.[5]
He has also worked at Arrakis Investments Limited, a company that, at the time, had no employees other than its one director.[6]
Politics
O'Leary has stood unsuccessfully for the Conservative Party in local elections to Greenwich London Borough Council on several occasions. At the 1998 council election, he was a candidate for the Labour-held St Alfege ward.[7] At the subsequent council election in 2002, he stood in Greenwich West; all three seats were won by the Labour Party.[3][8][9]
His most recent candidacy to date was at the 2006 Greenwich election, this time in the Charlton ward, when O'Leary and the other opposition parties finished a considerable margin behind the winning Labour candidates.[10] At this election, his wife, Liz Truss, was elected to Eltham South ward, which she represented until 2010.[11] O'Leary has remained active in politics as a member of the Conservatives, canvassing with the party in Greenwich in 2022.[12][5]
Personal life
O'Leary met Truss at the 1997 Conservative Party conference in Blackpool.[3][13] The couple's first date was spent ice-skating, during which O'Leary sprained his ankle.[3] O'Leary and Truss married in 2000; they live in Greenwich, south-east London, and the South West Norfolk constituency which Truss represented from 2010 to 2024.[5][14] He stayed with Truss following her 2004–2005 extramarital affair with the Conservative MP Mark Field,[15] which led to the breakdown of Field's marriage to his wife, Michele Acton.[16] The couple have two daughters.[3]
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