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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Aletha Adu

Liz Truss 'branded diplomacy "really boring" and didn't want Foreign Secretary job'

Liz Truss once said she found foreign affairs "really boring" and didn't want want to become Foreign Secretary, her former Tory colleague has claimed.

Former Cabinet Minister Rory Stewart claimed Ms Truss struggled to understand why he was "obsessed" with diplomacy.

He made the comments in the first episode of his new podcast, The Rest Is Politics, hosted with former head of Downing Street comms, Alastair Campbell.

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