Liz Truss speaks at a Tory fringe & backs Herbert Morrison: socialism is what a Labour Government does’
Liz Truss has been speaking at a fringe event at the Tory Conference in Birmingham. It wasn’t that fringe because it was behind the security cordon and open to conference attendees only.
Even so Hall 5 at the ICC was reportedly packed-it holds 300 people- for a Q&A between Truss and a Telegraph journalist.
As might be expected Truss said a number of interesting things:
She backs Trump to win the US Presidency as the anti-Establishment candidate
She think Boris Johnson should not have been purged as Tory leader and thinks she would have done better than Sunak on July 4th
She notes that Electors in her former SW Norfolk Constituency did not want to elect a Labour MP but this took place by accident thanks to the intervention of Reform UK (who came third)
She argued that Britain is already ‘in socialism’ echoing the view of Herbert Morrison (Attlee’s Deputy in the 1945-51 Labour Government) that socialism is what a Labour Government does. Keir Starmer hasn’t used that line yet..
Finally Truss noted she hadn’t yet decided if she would stand again as an MP. In other words, she may be back…
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