Subsequently, a number of Truss’s aides would rue the personnel changes agreed at Chevening. ‘I think it was the appointment of the Cabinet that was the problem,’ says one. ‘Wendy Morton should never have been Chief Whip, Kwasi should never have been Chancellor, Jacob Rees-Mogg should never have been Business. Suella, Ranil, couldn’t put them on the media. The minute she put them in the Cabinet, it started to go wrong.’
