Why politicians can’t resist striking a pose in Vogue

British prime minister-in-waiting Liz Truss is said to want to appear in the fashion glossy, but she should be careful what she wishes for

Liz Truss, heavily tipped to be the next leader of the Conservative party, would like to get into Vogue. We know this because she asked the Scottish first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, how to go about it at the Cop26 climate conference last November. Sturgeon said Truss looked a little bit as if she'd swallowed a wasp" when she told her she had made its pages twice.

This is going to sound really up myself but I don't mean to ... I'd just been interviewed by Vogue, as you do ... that was the main thing she wanted to talk to me about - she wanted to know how she could get into Vogue", Sturgeon told an Edinburgh fringe event last week.