LIZ Truss has revealed she ignored recommendation to decelerate given by Queen Elizabeth days earlier than the monarch’s loss of life.
In her new e-book, she admitted she ought to have heeded the 96-year-old’s phrases when she was sworn in as new PM in September 2022.
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Ms Truss as a substitute charged forward with radical financial reforms which led to her quitting No10 after 49 days.
The Queen was seen utilizing a strolling stick and smiling as she greeted Ms Truss in her Balmoral sitting room.
It was the final public {photograph} of Elizabeth earlier than she died two days later.
Ms Truss recalled: “We spent round 20 minutes discussing politics.
“She was fully attuned to every part that was taking place, in addition to being sometimes sharp and witty.
“In direction of the tip of our dialogue, she warned me that being Prime Minister is extremely ageing.
“She additionally gave me two phrases of recommendation — ‘Tempo your self’. Possibly I ought to have listened.”
In Ten Years To Save The West, she says the Queen’s loss of life got here as a “profound shock”, which left her pondering: “Why me? Why now?”
She revealed the sight of the Queen’s coffin on tv despatched her “into floods of tears on the couch” as she turned “overwhelmed by the emotion of all of it”.
Ms Truss, who learn The Second Lesson on the late Queen’s Westminster Abbey state funeral, admitted the interval of mourning was “a good distance from my pure consolation zone”.
