Liz Truss’s aides would concoct tales about members of the family dying to be able to get the highest Tory out of tv appearances, it has been claimed.
Kirsty Buchanan, who labored for the brand new prime minister when she was justice secretary, mentioned Ms Truss didn’t like doing media.
“She didn’t like the media, so we used to spend quite a lot of time making up excuses and killing off minor members of her family so she didn’t have to go on Question Time,” Ms Buchanan, a former political journalist who has additionally labored in No.10 mentioned.
Speaking on the Whitehall Sources podcast , the ex-aide clarified : “Only minor people like aunts and cousins and things — I’m not talking about major members of the family.”
Eventually Ms Buchanan mentioned Ms Truss’s group “ran out of excuses” and the Tory MP needed to seem on the flagship BBC politics programme .
The declare comes because the prime minister on Wednesday pulled out of a scheduled official go to the place she was anticipated to have to talk to broadcasters.
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Last week Ms Truss additionally dashed out of a press briefing on the federal government’s financial coverage after simply 4 questions and 7 minutes of scrutiny.
The prime minister earlier this month did a collection of native radio interviews during which she was repeatedly placed on the spot by presenters.
During the Tory management marketing campaign she admitted she was not a refined speaker. She held the position of Justice Secretary between July 2016 and June 2017.
Despite Ms Truss’s former aide’s declare the prime minister has appeared recurrently on BBC Question Time – a complete of 9 occasions between 2012 and 2019.