Liz Truss insisted on hosting a lunch at an “ incredibly expensive ” private club owned by a Tory donor, overruling her officials’ advice to go somewhere more suitable. Leaked correspondence has revealed the foreign secretary “ refused to consider anywhere else ” and requested taxpayers’ cash for a £3, 000 event with Joe Biden’s trade representative. Her civil servants were so alarmed at the cost – and the venue owners’ close links to the Tories – that the proposal was referred to the top offici
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