Watch: Sunak jibes at Truss over ‘deep state’

To parliament, where the Commons is about to go into recess, again. Winding up this term’s proceedings was Rishi Sunak’s traditional grilling at the Liaison Committee. Back in the good old days of Boris Johnson there was mutual loathing between the Prime Minister and the various chairs of the select committees, some of whom were elected explicitly because they were Johnson’s critics.

But these days under top swot Sunak, the panel’s session are much more staid affairs. The ninety-minute encounter proved to be something for a walk in the park for the PM as he eagerly displayed his mastery of the brief. Humour was provided, however, by William Wragg: the baby-faced chair of the Public Administration Committee. He asked Sunak about comments made by his predecessor Liz Truss suggesting that she had been undermined by the ‘deep state.’ Did he agree?

Sunak: ‘I think that’s probably a question for her rather than me.