Conor Burns suggests Liz Truss should not have sacked him before groping claim investigated – as it happened

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Here is some comment from journalists on the FT scoop about Liz Truss not appointing Antonia Romeo as the new permanent secretary at the Treasury. (See 10.41am.)

From Sky's Sam Coates