Officials were concerned that Truss’ book included details about advice the late Queen had given her.
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss is reported to have broken Whitehall rules, after failing to get the Cabinet Office’s clearance to reveal details of private conversations with the late Queen in her new memoir.
Under the conventions of the ‘Radcliffe rule’, former ministers are required to hand over a pre-publication copy of their memoir for vetting, to ensure that sensitive details pertaining to national security, or which may harm the UK’s relations with other nations or affect the confidential relationship between ministers and officials are not published.
The Times reports that “Truss had sent a copy of her book, Ten Years to Save the West, to the Cabinet Office “in good time” pre-publication.”
“However, she is understood not to have had clearance to publish some specific details.”
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