Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss claimed in a speech to the Australian Conservative Party Political Action Conference that the left was winning the “debate” and called for funding for public broadcasters to restore left-wing victory. I asked him to stop.
An audience of about 1,000 people at the CPAC conference in Brisbane said the financial crisis that led to the former Conservative Party leader resigning as prime minister after just 49 days with a disastrous mini-budget was to blame for the “elections.” I heard criticism that the Bank of England was not selected.
“The failure of the unelected Bank of England… was blamed on me and our government was forced to step down,” she said on Saturday.
Truss said at a right-wing event that the left is “winning the debate” by replacing “socialism” with terms like “environment,” “human rights” and “equality.” “But what they mean is divisive identity politics.”
She also accused “NGOs, bureaucrats and the media” along with universities and think tanks of undermining the conservative cause.
“Is it impossible to achieve conservative policies with the current structure of the bureaucracy? Or so I felt it was impossible,” she said.
The loudest cheer of her 22-minute speech came when she called for an end to funding for “state media.”
“We need to be prepared to dismantle the leftist bureaucracy,” she said.
“We need to be prepared to cut funding to state media.
“I don't know which is worse, the BBC or the ABC. I wear both and they're both pretty bad.”
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Mr Truss said that while many people were campaigning against the Conservatives, “the people” were on their side.
He lost his south-west Norfolk seat in the July general election. Her party had previously held the seat for 60 years.
During the year, she appeared at conservative events in the United States and Britain, including one sponsored by a new political organization she co-founded in February called Popular Conservatives.
Truss' headline speech, “10 Days to Save the West,” shares the title with her political memoir, published in April, before her shocking loss.
However, none of the books were on sale at the book stands at the venue, so the audience could not purchase them.
The event was also attended by Australian senators Alex Antic and Bridget McKenzie, Barnaby Joyce and former Queensland Premier Campbell Newman.
Members of the audience said they had traveled to Canberra to hear the former British prime minister speak.
