Is Former UK PM Liz Truss Heading to Reform UK?
By Steven Tripp
Could former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss be the new recruit to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK?
“That’s a YES!” remarked Rowan Dean, the Editor of the Spectator Australia and host of the top-rating ‘Outsiders’ program on Sky News Australia.
This was during Ms. Truss’ live interview on the Outsiders, which took place in front of the audience at CPAC Australia over the weekend.
Speaking with hosts Rowan Dean and James Morrow, Ms. Truss was asked, “Would you go and do something with the Reform Party?”
Not answering the question directly, Ms. Truss started by saying, “In Britain, it’s feeling existential. It is feeling existential about whether or not our country remains like it is, or it falls apart. This is how bad it is”.
“People have given up on the main political parties,” she went on to say, before adding, “Neither party has stood up to the Globalist blob”.
“Those forces are very powerful, they’re very dominant in Britain, and we are seeing now a popular uprising against them”.
Unrelenting, Dean then pushed Ms. Truss on the question further by asking, “Can I reiterate? Would you work with Reform? Would you get back into politics?”
Ms. Truss’ nervous laugh was enough to convince Dean, even if he was being a little cheeky.
“I’ll take a yes,” Dean exclaimed, “You heard it here first”.
Truss went on to say, “My point about Nigel Farage, who is the bookie’s favourite to be next Prime Minister of Britain. If it is the case that he ends up in Number 10 and the system doesn’t change. If the bureaucrats remain the same. If all the Blairite laws stay in place; the human rights act, the equality act, nothing will change.”
“So, what my obsession is, is how do we achieve a counter-revolution in Britain?”
Ms. Truss was certainly not holding back in front of the live audience in Brisbane, Australia as she went on to say, “the Marxists have taken over the judiciary, the civil service, the police; with their wokery, with their Net Zero zealotry, with their Islamism. That is what we need to take back”.
To finalise her answer on whether she would work with Reform, Truss declared, “I see myself as being on the front line of the counter-revolution.”
Before adding, with a mischievous laugh, “Exactly what role I will take, we will see”.
As the interview progressed, Ms. Truss pushed hard with her theme of a ‘counter-revolution’ against the left as she said, “They’ve been planning this for a long time, and we’ve been asleep at the wheel. And we’ve been accommodating them. And saying, ‘oh yes, we’re concerned about human rights, oh yes, we’re concerned about equality, oh yes, we’re concerned about these environmental issues’. Meanwhile, they’ve just been taking ground”.
“The asylum agreements, the refugee agreements, the human rights agreements, none of them are fit for purpose.”
“They have been tools that the left has used against us; and the left has weaponised lawfare, they’ve weaponised human rights and now they’re even killing people. That is how bad it has gotten.”
Ms. Truss’ appearance on the Outsiders on Sunday morning capped off her appearance at CPAC Australia, in which she had also given a well-received keynote speech the day before.
Sky News Australia reported that ‘Former UK prime minister Liz Truss unleashes blistering attack on Keir Starmer and Western leaders at CPAC Brisbane’.
It was a no-holds barred speech against the left and “neo-Marxist ideology” as Truss went on to describe current UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer as “the most unpopular Prime Minister on record”.
“I believe that Keir Starmer is as unpopular and arbitrary as King John,” she went on to say, before adding, “I think we will see a counter-revolution in Britain as a result of his leadership”.
Adding detail to her remarks, Truss said, “They fundamentally want to undermine Western civilisation. They want to undermine our way of life. They want to undermine the things we believe in, Christian values, free speech, the nation state”.
“What I saw, when I became Prime Minister, is that power that used to sit on the hands of ministers had been handed over to our unelected, unaccountable central bank and our unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats.”
“It’s what the Americans call the deep state, it’s what we in Britain call the blob.”
Despite her misgivings about the direction of both the UK and Australia, Ms. Truss turned to the leadership of US President Donald Trump for hope.
“As President Trump says, it is fight, fight, fight. And I do believe we are seeing a change, we’re seeing a change in the public in our countries.”
The former Prime Minister ended her address by saying to the Australian audience, “Let’s resolve today at this CPAC conference to fight a battle that will take decades. It’s a battle to reverse the takeover by the leftists of our institutions, of our media, and it will be tough, it will hard, but we need to fight and we need to fight, and we to fight.”
By Steven Tripp