Truss’s chief of staff quizzed by FBI

It’s been an eventful few weeks for Liz Truss. Our new Prime Minister has faced a baptism of fire not seen since by an incoming premier since Churchill and the fall of France in 1940. War, inflation, a-cost-of-living crisis and the death of the Queen: so much for a honeymoon. Still, Her Majesty’s passing has meant a brief hiatus from normal politics, which is expected to resume with gusto on Tuesday. And one issue which we can expect Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer to probe with relish is Truss’s newly appointed Chief of Staff, Mark Fullbrook.

For according to today’s Sunday Times, Fullbrook has been, er, questioned by the FBI in connection to an ongoing investigation about an alleged criminal plot to bribe an American politician and influence a US election. The paper reports that Fullbrook was made a formal subject of a US Department of Justice and FBI investigation this year, into an alleged conspiracy to subvert the democracy of Puerto Rico, the US-administered Caribbean island.