Following the sacking of Tom Scholar as the Treasury’s Permanent Secretary, Liz Truss sought to calm fears across Whitehall that a purge of senior civil servants was in the offing. Particular speculation hung around the position of Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary.
News also emerged that the Prime Minister aimed to use the occasion of the Queen’s funeral the following Monday to make her first meeting with a number of world leaders. This would include a private meeting with Joe Biden, the American President.
Meanwhile, Kwasi Kwarteng, the Chancellor, considered scrapping the limit on bankers’ bonuses brought in by a 2014 piece of EU legislation. This would prove contentious with the Palace, on the day the Queen’s coffin was moved to lie in state in Westminster Hall.
With acknowledgments to Harry Cole and James Heale‘s Out of the Blue: the Inside Story of the Unexpected Rise and Rapid Fall of Liz Truss