Her short-lived premiership led to a run on the banks, and she resigned after 49 days.
Last year it emerged Truss was in dispute with the Cabinet Office after being left with a £12,000 bill for costs relating to her stays at Chevening, the official grace and favor residence enjoyed as a perk by foreign secretaries. Most of the bill related to hospitality, with some of the rest covering missing items such as bathrobes.
A spokesperson for Truss said: “Liz had many responsibilities as foreign secretary, but it ought to be self-evident that organizing the in-flight catering on overseas trips was not among them.”
She was also reported by the Guardian to have overruled civil service advice to host a lunch at an expensive private club owned by a Tory donor, where the eventual bill for the taxpayer came in at £3,000.
The data Labour requested also detailed catering costs for trips by other recent foreign secretaries. The in-flight catering bill for Truss’s predecessor Dominic Raab during a visit to Indonesia and Brunei in April 2021 amounted to £6,215.
A trip Raab took to Singapore, Vietnam and Cambodia in June 2021 cost the exchequer £7,625 for in-flight catering. And a visit made by Truss’s successor James Cleverly to Japan, South Korea and Singapore cost £14,900 for 14 government representatives — almost 4 percent of the overall £384,160 flight cost.