29 October 2022
When Liz Truss was told, during the dying days of her mayfly Premiership, that the security services were picking up intelligence that Vladimir Putin might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine it sent a chill down her spine.
The Prime Minister was still adjusting to getting used to a new mobile phone number...
In particular, Ms Truss was told that Putin might explode a weapon in the air above the Black Sea...
As with the Chernobyl accident in 1986, the radiation could pose a threat to Europe if it blew in this direction: as a result, colleagues say Ms Truss became fixated with the weather forecast.
A source said: 'Liz was obsessed with the prevailing wind, watching the forecasts to see if she needed to trigger a Protect and Survive plan.'...
President Zelensky was also told by his intelligence agencies that there was a 'very high' risk Russia might use tactical nuclear weapons...
The source added: ... 'We found her watching the weather forecasts with unusual interest'. Radiation-detecting equipment is scattered across Europe as an early-warning system in the event of an accident or the deliberate use of a nuclear weapon, while cloud-mapping experts share information between countries about radiation direction.