Watch: ITV snubs Truss at races

To West Sussex, where spectators are enjoying the sun at the Goodwood Racecourse. But it hasn’t necessarily been the most pleasant experience for everyone – least of all a former prime minister who seems unable to reap the benefits of her short-lived stint in office…

ITV was quizzing excited race-goers about the day and the interviewer stopped next to one gentleman to inquire about his pre-race thoughts on the stallions of the day. After a rather quick Q&A the presenter bid his farewells before moving onto the next interviewee – which wasn’t the woman in white also in frame, much to her disappointment. Former PM Liz Truss – in the top job for all of 49 days – smiled expectantly during the interview, waiting for ITV to ask what the woman who once ran the country thought. But that moment, er, never quite came…

As the programme moved on, one in-studio broadcaster spotted what his colleague had rather amusingly missed: ‘That’s Liz Truss isn’t it?!’ ‘It was, my eyes are not deceiving me,’ his co-commentator joked.