Truss turns on foes at book bash

After the longest promotional tour in history, Liz Truss finally held her belated book launch party. Less than an hour after voting against her successor’s smoking ban, Truss welcomed the good and the great of Tory politics to mark the advent of her new tome Ten Days to Save the West. In a wide-ranging speech, the onetime premier turned on her (many) foes and lamented the downsides of life in Downing Street, including the infamous flea infestation, ‘not to mention all the other creatures that were hanging around in No. 10’. Ouch. 

Running through her political enemies, Truss made a passionate case for people to buy her book. ‘I do have children to feed,’ she reminded the crowd. ‘I have to pay for new trainers – because they used to have those Adidas ones.’ Her children are just part of the community unimpressed with Sunak’s ‘Samba’-wearing tendencies, then…

Her successor wasn’t the only MP whose ears will be burning tonight.