When Liz Truss took to the stage at the Spectator’s Parliamentarian of the Year awards, she used her speech to send up her Cabinet colleagues and boss – cracking jokes about the indefinite length of the backstop, Karen Bradley’s loose grasp of history and – in a dig at her own department – called for a ban on Treasury forecasts. So, given Truss’s straight-talking attitude, I’m delighted to have the Chief Secretary to the Treasury as my guest on the latest episode of Women with Balls:
In the interview, Truss talks about the regrets of her youth ( … joining the Liberal Democrats), why she cares strongly about British cheese to this day and how The Thick Of It made life more difficult for female politicians:
‘As a woman in politics you do face a particular criticism sometimes and there is this myth aboard and I blame The Thick of It with the sort of Nicola Murray type minister the sort of sensible woman who is a bit clueless, who doesn’t really have a mind of her own and just gets bossed around by spin doctors and I think that myth sometimes perpetuates.
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