The excuses included the deaths of “aunts and cousins and things”, the aide said.
Speaking on the Whitehall Sources podcast, Ms Buchanan said: ““Liz Truss, when I worked for her, she obviously didn’t like the media, so we used to spend quite a lot of time making up excuses and, you know, killing off minor members of her family so that she didn’t have to go on Question Time.
“Anyway, so we ended up on Question Time and she said to me, I don’t care who’s on the panel as long as it’s not X, and I’m not going to tell you who X is. “And we turn up at the Green Room and there is the one person, the one person she didn’t weant to go on a panel with, and she looked at me and if looks could kill…Ms Truss appeared on Question Time nine times between 2012 and 2019.
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