LIZ Truss used to pretend members of her family had died in order to avoid media appearances, one of her former aides has claimed.
Kirsty Buchanan worked for Truss while she was justice secretary under Theresa May and said she would tell producers “minor members” of her bosses’ family had died so she did not have to go on Question Time.
She told the Whitehall Sources podcast: “She didn’t like the media, so we used to spend quite a lot of time making up excuses and killing off minor members of her family so she didn’t have to go on Question Time.
