THE West has just 10 years to be saved from dark forces, wokery and authoritarian regimes like China and Russia, Liz Truss warned today.
On Never Mind the Ballots, the ex-PM argued Britain is being slowly taken over by left-wing un-elected bureaucrats pushing extreme environmentalism, political correctness and socialism.
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And she even said she wants Nigel Farage to join the Tories.
The UK’s shortest-serving leader of all time said: “I fear if we don’t get our act together as the West, we will see the likes of China, Russia and Iran dominating the world.
“This is about Conservatives actually fighting back against left wing ideology, because we’ve allowed the left to win in many areas.
“One is gender ideology, but it’s also true on things like the net zero agenda and human rights.”
Ms Truss added: “I think we’re losing touch with what we should be about and what our way of life should be about.
In a no holds barred interview, Liz Truss also…
- Revealed the Queen’s parting words to her in their final meeting
- Argued Britain must leave the ECHR, abolish the Supreme Court and tear up the Human Rights Act
- Called for the Bank of England boss to be sacked
- Called for Nigel Farage to join the Tories
“Power that used to be in the hands of democratically elected politicians now lies in the hands of unelected bureaucrats.”
The ex-PM blasted the Bank of England, the Office for Budget Responsibility, Natural England and the Environment Agency for pushing agendas allegedly against the will of the people.
She argued that mandarins and leftie civil servants covertly operate to stop Tory ideas being made into law and instead try and push forward woke policies.
This in turn could weaken national security and further open Britain to threats from authoritarian tyrants abroad.
The MP for South West Norfolk also told Never Mind the Ballots host Harry Cole: “Unless we are prepared to take this stuff on, we will find it very, very hard to implement conservative policies.
“I think one part of it is conservatives not being prepared to fight the left enough and essentially meeting them half way.
“Part of it is that the bureaucracy is much more powerful than it used to be.
“And there’s no doubt that if governments in the 70s and 80s had faced the same type of bureaucratic constraint and legal constraint as we do now, they would not be able to have got the things done they did.”
Ms Truss added: “I’m trying to say is it’s not enough just to have the right policies on tax or the right policies on immigration or the right policies on taking on wokery.
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“We’re going to have to actually change the way British government works if we’re going to deliver conservative policies, because there has been a takeover of our institutions by the left, that is the reality of the situation.
“And that is what I’m trying to say to everybody who’s involved in politics.
“By the way, I would like Nigel Farage to join the Conservative Party.”
Ms Truss dramatically resigned as PM in October 2022, after just six weeks in office.
But her downfall began just days into her doomed premiership, when the disastrous mini budget was announced.
The tax-cutting bonanza reversed the National Insurance rise, scrapped the rise in Corporation Tax, cut stamp duty and abolished the 45p top rate of income tax.
I’m trying to say is it’s not enough just to have the right policies on tax or the right policies on immigration or the right policies on taking on wokery.
Liz Truss
When then-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng declared that was “just the start”, the markets spooked and went into meltdown.
A massive surge in the cost of government borrowing nearly put the wilfully overleveraged pensions industry on the edge of collapse.
After being warned of a huge rebellion that could oust her, Ms Truss executed her first humiliating U-turn by abandoning her pledge to abolish the 45p rate of tax.
The climbdown immediately weakened her authority as the mutineers smelled blood and began agitating for more of the mini-Budget to be jettisoned.
And with the new PM showing weakness, a total lack of Cabinet discipline followed – with the party gathering erupting in a huge row over benefits .
This month Ms Truss published Ten Years to Save the West, a book chronicling her 49 days in Downing St and the lessons she took from it.
The ex-PM claimed “deep state” forces were always out to get her.
She said she regrets not pushing ahead with her mini-budget and accused Bank of England boss Mark Bailey of not taking her side as fallout grew.
Liz Truss shortest serving Prime Minister in British history
By ED SOUTHGATE
LIZ Truss became the shortest-serving Prime Minister in British history by 74 days.
The fallen Tory leader’s 49 days in office is more than two months short of George Canning’s 118 days.
The fellow Tory’s time in office was cut short when he died from tuberculosis in 1827. Ms Truss would have overtaken him on January 3, 2023.
Her time in office also included a 10-day national mourning period for the Queen’s death, when politics was paused.
She resigned on October 20, 2022 after losing the confidence of her own MPs and the markets during a period of economic turmoil and U-turns.
It meant King Charles was already set for his second Prime Minister just six weeks after ascending to the throne.
And the country saw its third Prime Minister in four months.
The week before she resigned, Truss sacked humiliated Kwasi Kwarteng over their chaotic mini-budget. It made him our second-ever shortest-serving Chancellor.
Ms Truss said as she stood outside No10 Downing Street that she was elected on a mandate to change “a time of great economic and international instability”.
But she admitted: “I recognise, given the situation, I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party.”
Ms Truss had promised a “bold plan” to cut taxes and grow the economy and “deliver on the energy crisis”.
But the mini-budget, unveiled four days after the Queen’s funeral, with its plans to abolish the top rate of income tax for the highest earners sent the markets into turmoil.
Ms Truss insisted she stood by the package but in the end sacked her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, whose successor, Jeremy Hunt, ripped up the controversial budget by reversing most of the measures.
