Liz Truss calls for a ‘Trump revolution in Britain’

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Former British prime minister Liz Truss began her speech at CPAC today by declaring that America has just entered its golden age with the election of President Trump. Britain, however, is in its dark age, she said: “Let’s be honest, Britain isn’t working.”

Truss’s concerns for the current state of the UK and Europe mirrored those expressed in Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech in Munich last week. She touched on attacks on free speech in the UK, the rise of Pakistani grooming gangs and the inability of the British government to do anything about the rise in illegal immigration. Truss used as an example the story of an immigrant from the Democratic Republic of Congo who sexually abused his own stepdaughter, but was able to stay in the UK thanks to the “Right to Family Life” policy.

Truss discussed the current energy crises in the UK, noting that the country she briefly led has the highest energy prices in the developed world, fracking is banned there and there are no more steel plants. “How on Earth can the country of Adam Smith and the industrial revolution be deindustrializing?” she asked.

She answered her own question: “Everything that made Britain great is being destroyed by the establishment that hates Britain, and that hates the West.” Truss said this is not something the population of Britain voted for, but is being forced on them from above as many politicians passed much of their power over to “unelected and the unaccountable” organizations in and out of the UK. Her examples included the new British Supreme Court, the World Health Organization and the United Nations.

Truss then called out USAID for funding much of the anti-West ideologies plaguing her nation before calling for a “Trump revolution in Britain” and for “Elon and his nerd army of Musk-rats” to examine the British state. Though she proposed many other solutions, her main focus was on restoring free speech as “the lifeblood of our democracy.”