Speaking at the launch of the pro-Union lobby group Together UK Foundation, Mrs Foster said as a unionist she was happier that the former Foreign Secretary was in 10 Downing Street.

Baroness Arlene told the News Letter: I have said I preferred Liz Truss over Rishi Sunak because I think she not only understands the problems with the Northern Ireland Protocol, which are there for everybody to see, but emotionally she is very much more attached to the Union…