Liz Truss has been slammed for an “embarrassing speech” in which she claimed Britain needs a Donald Trump-style “MAGA” movement to save it.
The former Tory leader, who holds the record for the shortest-serving prime minister in British history, was speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Wednesday.
She told those in attendance at her talk – which took places in front of a ‘tiny crowd’ according to the Mirror – that British voters are becoming increasingly angry as the “deep state” keeps making disappointing decisions for them.
“The same people are still making the decisions. It’s the deep state, it’s the unelected bureaucrats, it’s the judiciary,” Truss said.
“And I think what ultimately will happen, what I hope to see, is a movement like you have in the US with Maga [‘Make America great again’], with CPAC, with all these organisations, that ultimately pushes change we all want. We want to have a British CPAC.”
Earlier in the speech, she attacked judges for “making decisions that should be made by politicians”, claiming the judiciary in Britain was “no longer accountable.”
She added: “There’s no doubt in my mind that until those changes are reversed, we do not have a functioning country. The British state is now failing, is not working. The decisions are not being made by politicians.”
Reacting to the speech on X, one person described Truss as “the most embarrassing thing the UK will ever export.”
“I wish they’d tariff her,” they added.
Others labelled the speech “irrelevant, unwatchable, and not in the slightest bit amusing.”
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