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Frances worked on the digital team at the campaign headquarters after gaining a computing qualification at school, Truss told The Daily Telegraph. Truss’s premiership had become a tinderbox. There was no need for ministerial resignations or no-confidence letters – the sense of inevitability that she could survive for only a few more days was overwhelming. Friends told The Guardian that O'Leary would not want to live at Downing Street full-time and is "not going to be Denis", referring to Margaret Thatcher's ultra-loyal husband, who became a household name. In recent decades politicians, not least because of Tory sleaze in the 1990s and the MPs’ expenses scandal in 2009, have enjoyed less than the full confidence of the public.

In August, Truss told the Daily Express that her daughters were "very excited" and Liberty "keeps asking would she be able to have sleepovers if I get into No 10". Low profile In contrast, her leadership rival Rishi Sunak made “restoring trust” one of the key planks of his campaign, and repeatedly said that would only be achieved by being honest with the public about the economic pain ahead. By mid-October, MPs were whispering that Truss had until Christmas to turn things around. But that was about to change. Jeremy Hunt was asked to take the job. Normally affable, on this occasion he was solemn – he requested that no pictures of him smiling be released by in-house government photographers. Hunt was now running the show, and Truss’s supporters felt the entire policy platform on which she had entered No 10 was about to be ripped to shreds. During her Tory leadership campaign Truss said the girls, who reportedly attend state schools, were actively involved behind the scenes.

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Truss walks off stage after delivering her keynote speech at the Tory party conference in Birmingham, 5 October 2022. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA Liz Truss on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme at the start of the Conservative party conference, 2 October 2022. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

This last measure had been discussed by Truss and Kwarteng over the summer, but they had not intended to announce it so soon. Truss was keen to use the honeymoon period that she thought would be afforded to them to “go big”, but there was disbelief among Tory MPs when the details emerged. An overwhelming number of the senior figures brought into the administration had limited experience running a Whitehall department, let alone the country. The entire legislative affairs team – in charge of drafting and timetabling bills – was replaced too. Towards the end of the debate, communications broke down. On the floor of the Commons, with less than 10 minutes until the division bells started ringing, the energy minister, Graham Stuart, announced that the confidence vote had been called off. Mayhem broke out. Coffey was accused of manhandling a Tory MP to force them to vote with the government, while Morton and her deputy, Craig Whittaker, felt so undermined that they tried to resign on the spot. Those who had been leading the campaign to oust Truss knew the moment had arrived. One told Graham Brady, the chair of the 1922 Committee, that there were now enough no-confidence letters from colleagues poised to be submitted to trigger a no-confidence vote. And so on Thursday morning, Brady traipsed across to No 10 to tell Truss she had lost the support of the parliamentary party. Trust in British democracy and the state has plummeted to new depths under Boris Johnson with his rejection of the normal conventions of government.

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It was silly of Liz not to squeeze every ounce of goodwill out of people by being the one to appoint them, so things got off to a bad start on literally day one,” said one of those appointed that day. When he won a landslide victory in 2019 his relaxed relationship with the truth was already well known – but enough voters were willing to set that aside in return for his boosterism and Brexit promises, and because they didn’t like the alternative of Jeremy Corbyn. Material: 100% organic ringspun combed cotton with the Trainspotting style post with Liz Truss and Twatspotting.