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EXCLUSIVE: Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Liz Truss is able to carry the “conservative revolution” dwelling from the 2025 Conservative Political Motion Convention, telling Fox Information Digital her plan to “Make the West Nice Once more.”
World leaders took middle stage at CPAC this week, telling the gang of American conservatives they’re able to see President Donald Trump’s agenda on the world stage. Truss, the shortest-serving prime minister in British historical past, mentioned world leaders are envious of Trump’s second time period and his Division of Authorities Effectivity.
“There’s quite a lot of momentum, and individuals are very envious of what is occurring within the U.S. We would love to have the ability to get the reality from authorities departments about what’s really being spent,” Truss informed Fox Information Digital.
Truss praised Elon Musk’s DOGE as a “playbook for what must occur” in the UK, however she mentioned {that a} DOGE UK can be unrealistic below Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s management.
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Former Prime Minister of the UK Liz Truss speaks on the Conservative Political Motion Convention (CPAC) on the Gaylord Nationwide Resort Lodge And Conference Middle on February 20, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Photograph by Andrew Harnik/Getty Photos)
“What Musk is doing, going straight to the cost system, is a incredible concept that we have to undertake in Britain, however the actuality is that isn’t going to occur below the present authorities, as a result of the present authorities are a part of the issue. They’re defenders of the deep state. They don’t seem to be going to be investigating themselves. I feel that is one thing that has to occur when there is a change of presidency. We’re watching very carefully what Elon Musk is doing. It is a incredible playbook for what must occur within the U.Okay.”
DOGE’s revelations about America’s federal funding and the mass layoffs of presidency workers have shaken up Washington this previous month. Truss mentioned that Musk is even holding the British authorities accountable.
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Liz Truss mentioned throughout a Fox Information Digital interview that she typically says that “Elon Musk is the chief of the opposition in Britain, as a result of he is the one really on X, difficult Keir Starmer’s insurance policies.” (Musk: Reuters / Cash: iStock / Trump: Getty)
“Typically I say that Elon Musk is the chief of the opposition in Britain, as a result of he is the one really on X, difficult Keir Starmer’s insurance policies, speaking about points just like the grooming gangs, the appalling gangs who’ve been raping women as younger as 12. It is Elon Musk that is been taking the struggle to Keir Starmer,” she mentioned.
Musk and Trump’s skill to grab the social media narrative and America’s rising unbiased media house impressed Truss to determine a “new free speech media community” in the UK.
“We’ve an enormous downside with free speech in Britain,” Truss mentioned. “Individuals are being locked up for posts on Fb and on X, which is extraordinary. We are the nation that invented freedom of the press again in 1695. It was virtually 100 years earlier than the First Modification. And now we’re, as a rustic, locking individuals up for saying issues on-line.”
“This wants to vary. So, what I am establishing is a brand new free speech media community, which is able to allow individuals in Britain to listen to what is definitely occurring, and folks throughout Europe to listen to what is going on on.” she continued. “I feel that is actually vital. Should you have a look at the Trump revolution, unbiased media was a significant a part of that.”
Trump leaned on new media throughout his 2024 presidential marketing campaign, posting TikTok movies from the marketing campaign path, spending practically three hours with the extensively well-liked podcaster Joe Rogan and utilizing Fact Social as a direct line to his core base.
Truss mentioned that Trump is main a “conservative revolution” and attended CPAC this yr to find out how she will be able to mannequin his American success again in the UK.
“What we’re seeing occurring in America is a revolution. It is a conservative revolution. All the issues we’ve in our societies within the West, the leftist ideology that is taken over, whether or not it is wokeism or excessive environmentalism or anti-capitalism, all of these are being taken on by President Trump. And I wish to see an identical revolution in Britain, which is why I am right here to find out about how they’re doing it, to speak about how we construct that type of motion in Britain,” Truss mentioned.
Liz Truss, former UK prime minister, in the course of the Conservative Political Motion Convention (CPAC) in Nationwide Harbor, Maryland, on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)
The previous prime minister mentioned she agrees with Trump on “every little thing from deporting unlawful migrants; to slicing taxes; to drill, child, drill; to being clear that males cannot be in girls’s loos.” She mentioned Britain must implement these insurance policies and hearth the “everlasting bureaucrats who’re a part of the issue.”
“The massive distinction with Britain is our forms is extra highly effective than the American forms. Most individuals working in authorities are profession bureaucrats, and that is what I feel we have to be taught from America. We have to change,” Truss added.
Truss mentioned she has had productive conversations with European and world leaders this week, strategizing about learn how to broaden their conservative coalition and create insurance policies to carry power costs down and increase the financial system. Truss even mentioned she had plans for a British CPAC.
Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss addresses the media in Downing Avenue in London, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. (AP Photograph/Alberto Pezzali)
Truss resigned as British prime minister after 49 days in workplace in 2022 after her massive tax minimize plan destabilized the financial system. She was considered one of three prime ministers in the UK inside a four-month interval in 2022.
“I acknowledge that, given the state of affairs, I can’t ship the mandate on which I used to be elected by the Conservative Social gathering,” Truss mentioned in her resignation.
The UK’s present prime minister and chief of the Labour Social gathering, Keir Starmer, ended 14 consecutive years of Conservative occasion rule when he was elected in 2024.
There’s a UK DOGE motion gaining traction on social media for revealing wasteful British spending. The Procurement Recordsdata is an X account that combs by means of greater than 300,000 contracts on the UK’s public authorities database to disclose mismanagement of British taxpayer cash, very like the official US DOGE account does.
FEBRUARY 6: Prime Minister Keir Starmer provides an interview throughout a go to to Springfields (Preston Lab), Nationwide Nuclear Laboratory facility on February 6, 2025, in Preston, England. (Photograph by Oli Scarff – WPA Pool/Getty Photos)
Nigel Farage, the Reform UK occasion chief who initiated Britain’s departure from the European Union, has explicitly known as for a UK DOGE. Regardless of the discontent from conservative leaders on British authorities effectivity, the prime minister’s workplace mentioned that it has created initiatives to chop authorities waste.
“The Chancellor has requested all departments to ship financial savings and efficiencies of 5% of their present finances as a part of the primary zero-based Spending Evaluation in seventeen years,” an HM Treasury spokesperson mentioned in an announcement to Fox Information Digital.
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“Each pound of presidency spending is being interrogated, to root out waste and get the perfect worth for taxpayers as we ship on their priorities set out within the Plan for Change. We’ve additionally created an Workplace for Worth for Cash that’s underpinning our work driving out waste and inefficiency, alongside slicing out a whole lot of tens of millions of kilos value of consultancy spending in authorities over the subsequent few years,” the spokesperson added.
Deirdre Heavey is a politics author for Fox Information Digital.
EXCLUSIVE: Liz Truss says Elon Musk’s DOGE is a ‘incredible playbook’ for the conservative revolution
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