LONDON — Liz Truss wants the U.K. to have its very own Donald Trump.
Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister this weekend hailed the Republican’s decisive victory in the U.S. presidential election — and called for a British copycat.
Speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi, Truss said: “Frankly, I think we need a British Trump. The question is who that individual might be.”
Truss — who quit after 49 chaotic days in the job back in 2022 — said Brits want to see the “same kind of revolution that Trump is delivering in America,” local media reported, although she ruled herself out of leading that movement.
“I have already put my fingers in the fire and had them severely burnt, but that is the type of approach that we now need to get the change in Britain,” she said of Trump’s Make America Great Again movement.
Truss’ brief premiership between Sept. and Oct. 2022 included a tax-cutting, debt-fuelled government budget which precipitated market turmoil. Truss has blamed British institutions including the Treasury and the Bank of England for her downfall.
She has since become a vocal supporter of Trump, arguing he pursued effective domestic policies which delivered economic growth. She attended both the Conservative Political Action Conference and Republican National Convention earlier this year, where she urged Republicans to fight against the “deep state.”
Speaking this weekend, Truss predicted the returning U.S. president’s ideology will be felt across the world.
“The Trump revolution that we are seeing in the U.S. is coming to Europe,” Truss predicted. “You can see the dissatisfaction in France, and Germany with economic stagnation. That dissatisfaction is coming to Europe, so you are going to see major changes in Europe as well as in Britain in the next five to 10 years.”
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