Just hours before resigning Truss tucked into a pork pie and a bottle of wine with her husband (Picture: Getty / Rex)
On her final night as Prime Minister Liz Truss tucked into a pork pie and a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc, it has been revealed.
What could have ultimately been her final meal in Downing Street, she enjoyed with her husband just hours before she resigned.
On October 21, just 44 days after she had won the leadership race over Rishi Sunak, Truss stood on the steps of Downing Street and said she could no longer run the country.
Her shortest of tenures had been ended, and the night before she had to deal with Tory whips quitting and chaos in the Commons after a fracking vote turned into a vote of confidence.
(Then it didn’t, and then at 1.30am it did.)
But after what must have been a stressful night for the PM, she accepted her fate, and her resignation was impending.
Just hours later Truss announced her resignation outside Downing Street (Picture: REUTERS)
Although it wasn’t confirmed the exact type of pork pie Truss ate, it was an unsurprising final meal given her long history with the meaty treat (Picture: Getty)
Truss enjoyed her final meal in number 10 with her husband Hugh O’Leary (Picture: Reuters)
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She sat down with a bottle of white wine, and mulled over the days politics with her husband, and a pork pie, her new biography claims.
In ‘Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid fall of Liz Truss’ by Harry Cole and James Heale her final night is described in detail.
The details were revealed in the new biography, ‘Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid fall of Liz Truss’ (Picture: Amazon)
The book says: ‘Truss returned to her Downing Street flat late that night. She cancelled a meeting with Hunt and instead pulled out a bottle of her favoured Sauvignon Blanc to share with her husband.
‘Over a pork pie, the couple began to accept the inevitability of her resignation.’
The irony of her final meal being a pork pie is not lost though, as the meaty treat, famously from Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, gave voters a laugh when she began her first speech as a cabinet minister back in 2014.
When she was secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs, Truss told Conservative Party members: ‘In December, I’ll be in Beijing, opening up new pork markets.’
The sentence was accompanied by a wide grin from Truss, who clearly expected applause, but it came a little too late.
She then went on to tell members that she vowed to ‘not rest until the British apple is back at the top of the tree’ it did get a solid mention.
But Truss supporters will be all too familiar with her favourite tipple, as it was revealed that on every overnight trip, she requested a bottle of ice-cold white wine in her fridge to round off her busy day.
She was teased earlier this week when her ‘rider’ was released ahead of the launch of the new biography.
On her final night in Downing Street the former PM tried to relax and accepted her resignation was pending, with a romantic meal with her husband.
