On 18 April 2017, Theresa May unexpectedly called a snap general election. Like the vast majority of the Cabinet, Truss barely figured in the Tory campaign. By this point Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood was said to have been advising the PM that relations with the judiciary were in such dire straits that Truss would have to be moved, if as expected the Tories crushed Jeremy Corbyn and returned with a massive majority.
