 But after what must have been a stressful night for the PM, she accepted her fate, and her resignation was impending. MORE : Kwasi told Truss to 'slow down' before mini-budget but she felt 'invincible' MORE : How do Liz Truss's 'diva' rider requests compare to rock stars? MORE : Russian spies 'hacked Liz Truss's phone and stole sensitive messages' 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 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 problem with this “growing the pie†analogy is that to make a pie bigger, you have to actually put more things into it. Invest flour, provide some egg support, a little syrup.The pie doesn’t magically grow if you ask it to be an entrepreneurial pie and the cupboard is bare. pic.twitter.com/h4o6IoqmO0— Mark Conway (@MarkConway87) October 5, 2022 The irony of her final meal being a pork pie is not lost tho){kind=link}
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.)