Liz Truss became rarely emotional in an interview last night, as she recounted the pressure that No. 10 had her on daughters.
Ms Truss, who served for just 49 days as Prime Minister, became tearful as she described the impact the relentless criticism of her had on her family.
Speaking to GB News, she revealed her daughter Liberty called her from the school playing field begging her not to quit.
In her book, Ten Years to Save the West, Ms Truss moving explains that “most children find out about the fallibilities of their parents over a number of years”.
She said: “Mine saw all of mine publicly exposed in very short order.”
Ms Truss told political editor Christopher Hope: “I think I find it hardest when it’s to do with my children. Everything else I can take.
“I tell them not to read the papers and look at Twitter.”
Ms Truss said by the time her daughter called asking her not to quit it was “a bit late by then, I’d written a resignation speech by then”.
Ms Truss also slammed Tory MPs who did not respect the mandate she had won from the party’s membership.
She said: “What I discovered in Downing Street was those forces of resistance were very strong. And to be honest, I didn’t have enough support from the Conservative Parliamentary Party to be able to overcome those forces.
“Did I get everything right? Obviously not. I’m a human being. I’ve got strengths and weaknesses like everybody else.
“But, was it actually possible to deliver a Conservative agenda with our current institutional structures and with the current makeup of the Conservative Parliamentary Party? I think the answer is no it wasn’t.”
Ms Truss’s tears aren’t the first time a woman PM has cried about their time in Downing Street coming to an end.
Mrs Thatcher was famously seen in tears after getting in her car to leave No. 10 for the last time in 1990.
Theresa May broke down delivering her final speech on the steps of Downing Street, as she conceded defeat on Brexit and said had “enduring gratitude” for the opportunity “to serve the country I love”.
