When rose to her feet to address the Commons at 11.40am on Thursday, she had known for more than two hours that was unlikely to survive the day.The new Prime Minister had been thrashing out the final details of her £150 billion energy bailout with close aides when she was told by Cabinet Secretary Simon Case that the monarch was gravely ill and it was a ‘matter of hours, not days’.As she tried to absorb the enormity of the news, Ms Truss realised that she would have to mask her anguish until had formally told the nation – after she had delivered her Commons statement.
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