Liz Truss and her husband Hugh O’Leary enter Downing Street for the first time in her leadership.Credit:Getty
She also compared herself to a “prisoner” when resident in Downing Street,saying that “just being stuck there” was one of the most difficult things to get used to.
In an extract from her new book,Ten Years to Save the West,serialised byThe Daily Mail,Truss wrote:“The place was infested with fleas.
“Some claimed that this was down to Boris and Carrie’s dog Dilyn,but there was no conclusive evidence. In any case,the entire place had to be sprayed with flea-killer. I spent several weeks itching.”
Then British PM Boris Johnson poses after casting his vote with dog Dilyn,in London in 2019.Credit:Getty
But she said “the most difficult thing to get used to was just being stuck there”,adding:“Spontaneous excursions were all but impossible:I was effectively a prisoner.
“If I insisted on going for a run or a walk,arrangements were made for me to be driven to a quiet bit of Hyde Park – but even this felt like being allowed out into the prison exercise yard.”
The book,which goes on sale next week,is described as “peppered with newsworthy anecdotes from Ms Truss’s time in public life”.