A source close to Ms Truss hit back: “The Cabinet Office confirmed that Liz complied with all the rules regarding national security and relations with foreign governments.
“She wanted to ensure that the truth was told about the mini-Budget and the role of officials and the Bank of England. She believes this is in the public interest.”
Ms Truss’s book places the blame on the Bank of England and the Office for Budget Responsibility for the market reaction that followed the mini-Budget unveiled by Kwasi Kwarteng, her chancellor, in September 2022.
The political and economic turmoil grew rapidly and she resigned just seven weeks after entering Downing Street amid untenable pressure from mutinous Conservative MPs.
Ms Truss broke down in tears during a podcast recording on Thursday as she recalled the toll her tumultuous 49-day premiership had taken on her family.
In an interview with Chopper’s Political Podcast on GB News, she said: “I think I find it hardest when it’s to do with my children.
“Most children find out the fallibilities of their parents over a number of years. Mine saw all of mine publicly exposed in very short order. I tell them not to read the papers and not to look at Twitter.”
Last year the Cabinet Office said Nadine Dorries, the former culture secretary, had also broken the Radcliffe Rules in her book The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson.
Ms Dorries’s claims included a number of lurid allegations about senior Tory figures, many of whom she anonymised.
Among these was the allegation a government insider once butchered a former partner’s rabbit in an act of revenge.
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