A Boris Johnson loyalist who was caught on a trip to Indonesia when the prime minister was deposed, Liz Truss had to scramble to pull together her leadership campaign team at breakneck speed.
Though the writing had been on the wall for some weeks – evidenced by the fact that the “Liz For Leader” website was registered just two days after Johnson survived a confidence vote – the foreign secretary began from a slower start than her rival, Rishi Sunak.
