Simon McGee to be No 10 press chief if Liz Truss becomes PM, sources say

One Tory source said Truss ‘lacks Boris’s emotional connectivity and gut instinct when she’s speaking to the wider public’. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Boris Johnson’s former Foreign Office press secretary Simon McGee will be appointed a top spinner for Liz Truss if she makes it to Downing Street next week, according to sources.

The Guardian understands that the powerful job of No 10 director of communications will be split in two, with McGee taking on a civil service role and Truss’s existing senior media adviser, Adam Jones, running the political side of the operation.