Papers were predicting she would be sacked in the next reshuffle. After 10 minutes of small talk I said: “Are we here to discuss how you plan to save your career?” If she didn’t quite put it like that, the then chief secretary to the Treasury began to outline her plans to “start saying what I really think”. Three years on and I’m sitting across from an altogether different Truss in a hotel in Newmarket – decor more 1970s curry house than John Lewis or Lulu Lyttle – with pollsters and bookmakers both predicting
