Tory leadership frontrunners Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have been accused of trying to cover up “basic facts” about their work in government by refusing to publish details of their meetings.
An officer at the Department for International Trade (DIT), where Truss was secretary of state during the pandemic, said openDemocracy’s request for her official diary was “vexatious” and a “fishing expedition”, and that it would not be in the public interest to know who Truss met and spoke to in her official capacity.
The Treasury repeated the “vexatious” line, and said releasing Sunak’s diaries from his time as chancellor would cost too much.
