When Liz Truss was a minister at the Department for Education a decade ago, she sometimes called herself The Truss, never Lizzie. Her ideas were often unorthodox but she cared. She once invited 60 maths teachers from China to show the British how to drill the next generation in simultaneous equations. Her father is a maths professor and she explained: “I like to shake things up”.
She is the only minister who ever persuaded me to do a selfie with her after an interview, for her Instagram account. She’s entertaining and energetic and would stride over the Whitehall cobbles in her three-inch heels while her aides trailed behind.
