Liz Truss book – latest: Memoir reveals that ex-PM’s husband predicted premiership ‘would all end in tears’

In an excerpt of her new e-book, former prime minister Liz Truss revealed how her husband predicted her premiership “would all finish in tears”.

In her memoir, Truss describes the second she learnt that her predecessor, Boris Johnson, was compelled to resign.

She was in Bali on the time as international secretary and stated: “As I walked alongside the seaside in Indonesia I began crying.”

“Even Hugh [her husband], who predicted it could all finish in tears, accepted that this was the second I used to be anticipated to run and that if I didn’t, individuals would say I had bottled it,” Truss writes.

The bombshell revelations embrace that she spent a number of of her six weeks as prime minister “itching” as a result of Downing Avenue was “infested” with the pests.

“The place was infested with fleas,” she wrote. “Some claimed that this was all the way down to Boris and Carrie’s canine Dilyn, however there was no conclusive proof. In any case, the whole place needed to be sprayed with flea killer. I spent a number of weeks itching.”

Liz Truss served in workplace for simply 49 days, making her Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister.

Many attribute her downfall to the federal government’s radical tax-cutting coverage agenda that tanked the pound.

However the MP for South West Norfolk defended her strategy in her memoir, suggesting the “pro-Stay” Treasury, Financial institution of England and Workplace for Finances Accountability have been “limitations to our plans”.

She stated she had been contemplating whether or not to “appoint new senior leaders within the Financial institution of England and Treasury” however admitted this could have “amounted to a declaration of conflict on the financial institution”.

“It will even have taken time we didn’t have,” she stated.

In an extract revealed on Mail+ of her memoir Ten Years to Save the West, Ms Truss stated: “That Tuesday, September 6 2022, she was standing up as she greeted me in her drawing room. I used to be informed she’d made a particular effort to take action however she gave no trace of discomfort all through our dialogue.

“This was solely my second one-on-one viewers together with her. On the earlier event, after I’d been faraway from a unique job within the Authorities, she’d remarked that being a girl in politics was powerful.

“For about 20 minutes, we mentioned politics — and it was clear she was utterly attuned to every thing that was taking place, in addition to being sometimes sharp and witty. There merely wasn’t any sense that the top would come as rapidly because it did.”

Within the first excerpt of her e-book, titled Ten Years to Save the West, the previous prime minister stated that she requested, “why me, why now?” when Queen Elizabeth II died simply two days into her premiership.

Of her historic assembly at Balmoral in Scotland in September 2022Truss says the 96-year-old the Queen “appeared to have grown frailer” since she had final been within the public eye.

“We spent round 20 minutes discussing politics. She was utterly attuned to every thing that was taking place, in addition to being sometimes sharp and witty,” she writes in Mail+.

Ms Truss, whose tenure in Downing Avenue lasted simply 49 days after her disastrous mini-budget unleashed financial chaos, additionally revealed the late Queen informed her to “tempo your self”.

“Perhaps I ought to have listened,” the previous PM stated.