A Conservative MP has blasted Liz Truss for the timing of her political comeback.
The former Prime Minister released an essay last weekend, and then gave an interview defending her policies while in Number 10.
But fellow Tory Robin Walker told GB News he felt it was ill-advised.
Robin Walker told GB News that Liz Truss's ill-advised
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Speaking to Gloria De Piero, Mr Walker, the MP for Worcester said: “I'm not sure it's a helpful intervention.
"I think part of the reason why we are where we are is a certain lack of self-awareness on that front.
"We’ve had 4,000 words over the weekend, I think it's about 4,000 too many in the current situation."
Truss became the shortest-serving prime minister in UK history, spending only 49 days in office.
Speaking earlier this week she admitted her premiership was "tough" but she "just sort of got on with it".
"I went in with a very clear agenda about what we needed to deliver but events took place which I wasn't expecting", she told the Spectator.
The mini-budget, which included a £45billion package of tax cuts, would have been scaled back if she had been warned about fragility in a section of the pensions market that was heavily tied to government bonds, Truss also said.
She blamed Treasury officials for not warning her or her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng that "problems in the bond market preceded the mini-budget".
He described her essay on her downfall as '4,000 words too many'
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"Our assumption was that we'd worked up these plans with Treasury officials and if there had been a major problem it would have been flagged to us," she said.
Asked directly if she wanted to be prime minister again she said "no", adding "I'm not desperate to get back into Number 10".
Truss said she still counts Kwarteng, who she sacked at the height of the economic turmoil, as a friend.
After replacing Kwarteng as chancellor with Jeremy Hunt after just 38 days in the role, Ms Truss said she realised "it was difficult for me to continue" as prime minister.
Walker’s full interview will be broadcast on Sunday February 12 on GB News.