Liz Truss’s likely chief of staff lobbied government on behalf of Libyan parliament

Exclusive: Mark Fullbrook, who co-ran her leadership campaign, also helped win PPE contracts worth 680m for Australian manufacturer

The co-director of Liz Truss's campaign has been lobbying the UK government on behalf of Libya's controversial parliament and a company that won the biggest PPE deal of the pandemic through the VIP fast-track lane.

Mark Fullbrook, an ally of Boris Johnson's former strategist Lynton Crosby, is expected to enter Downing Street as Truss's chief of staff after working on her campaign this summer.