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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Edward Helmore

Why politicians can’t resist striking a pose in Vogue

Liz Truss hopes to follow Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon into Vogue.
Liz Truss hopes to follow Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon into Vogue. Photograph: Getty

Liz Truss, heavily tipped to be the next leader of the Conservative party, would like to get into Vogue. We know this because she asked the Scottish first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, how to go about it at the Cop26 climate conference last November. Sturgeon said Truss “looked a little bit as if she’d swallowed a wasp” when she told her she had made its pages twice.

“This is going to sound really up myself but I don’t mean to … I’d just been interviewed by Vogue, as you do … that was the main thing she wanted to talk to me about – she wanted to know how she could get into Vogue”, Sturgeon told an Edinburgh fringe event last week.

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