Liz Truss has claimed that No10 was a “jail infested by fleas” and that some individuals blamed Boris Johnson’s canine Dilyn.
In an extract of her new e-book, Ten Years to Save the West, serialised by the Daily Mail, the previous Prime Minister stated she spent her first weeks within the job “itching” due to a flea infestation.
She wrote: “The place was infested with fleas. 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, your complete place needed to be sprayed with flea killer. I spent a number of weeks itching.”
Liz Truss claimed that some imagine Boris’s canine Dilyn was chargeable for the ‘flea infestation’
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She additionally in contrast her time residing in Downing Street as being a “prisoner”.
Truss claimed probably the most troublesome factor to get used to was “simply being caught there”.
She described how if she wished to go on a run, she could be pushed to a quiet a part of Hyde Park and this felt like a prisoner being allowed to train within the yard.
The ex PM stated that the dearth of assist she acquired was “fairly surprising”.
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Liz Truss in contrast her time residing in Downing Street as being a “prisoner”
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She claims she was left with none medical assist and that she was left to “organise my very own hair and make-up appointments”.
When discussing the Queen’s demise, Truss revealed that she broke down into “floods of tears” and went into a “state of shock”.
The information of the Queen’s demise got here on her second full day as PM, leaving her asking: “Why me, why now?”
Truss held her second and ultimate viewers with Elizabeth two days earlier than her demise and stated that there “simply wasn’t any sense that the end would come as quickly as it did.”
Recalling the assembly the place the Queen met and appointed Truss, she stated that the monarch was “standing up as she greeted me in her drawing room.”
She continued: “I was told she’d made a special effort to do so but she gave no hint of discomfort throughout our discussion.
“This was only my second one-on-one audience with her. On the previous occasion, after I’d been removed from a different job in the government, she’d remarked that being a woman in politics was tough.
“For about 20 minutes, we discussed politics – and it was clear she was completely attuned to everything that was happening, as well as being typically sharp and witty. There simply wasn’t any sense that the end would come as quickly as it did.”
