With lightning speed, Liz Truss dropped a characteristic clanger after being announced as one of the two Tories who will battle it out to be the new Prime Minister.
The gaffe-prone Foreign Secretary proclaimed within minutes of the result being declared that she would “hit the ground” in No10 – forgetting to add the word “running”.
The tweet suggesting she would crash rather than start at full speed sounded like a rare moment of honesty in a leadership campaign dogged by claims of dirty tricks.
