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‘That snake’: Liz Truss, Gove and the week her big policy blew up

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She was bouncing between two states of mind, from full-scale denial to believing conspiracy theories.

“She was inhabiting a tiny bubble. She had cut herself off completely from what the media was saying and what her MPs were talking about,” said one of her senior advisers.

Truss was particularly put out because she had held a confidential conversation with Gove late morning on Tuesday September 27 .

Acting on advice that he was biddable and that she should bury the hatchet, especially before the conference, he was called in.

Gove began to feel that she was sizing him up to become British ambassador to Israel , which rankled because he didn't like to think he was being bought off.

Truss ’s deputy prime minister, party chair and chief whip all let it be known they were angry with the critics, but none were weighty figures in the party.

“The vacuum showed just how paper-thin her support in cabinet and party was: it was transactional only. They had backed her for personal gain,” said the former chief whip Sir Gavin Williamson .

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