David Trimble’s widow backs Liz Truss in Tory leadership race

Liz Truss (Clodagh Kilcoyne/PA)

The widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner David Trimble has backed Liz Truss in the leadership race saying she is confident that her late husband’s legacy of peace in Northern Ireland “will be safe with her”.

Ms Trimble said one of her late husband’s last acts was to declare his support for her.