Exclusive: Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is not the only senior Conservative alarmed by Liz Truss’ attempts to reinvent herself as a Trumpian Brit. Senior Tories want former prime minister Liz Truss to “take a holiday” and get out of the public gaze for “at least a year.”.
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The comments came after Ms Truss became a popular feature for Donald Trump’s Maga supporters and donors on the inauguration party circuit in Washington DC last week. On Monday night just hours after Mr Trump was sworn in, the former prime minister, who lasted just 49 days in Downing Street, stood up at one of the official balls celebrating the inauguration and gave an impromptu speech.
Ms Truss is said to have repeated the line that Britain needs its own Trump and praised the incoming US president for “saving western civilisation”. A source from the ball packed full of rightwing backers of the new administration said that “she got a huge ovation for her words”.
But the interventions are causing alarm in the Conservative Party with a number concerned that she is “becoming an embarrassment.” On Thursday, The Guardian reported that that current Tory leader Kemi Badenoch suggested at a shadow cabinet meeting she “wants Liz Truss to shut up for a while”.
Two Conservatives visiting DC for the Trump inauguration this week told The Independent: “She needs to take a holiday”, with one suggesting that it should be “for at least a year.”. The scars left by the former prime minister’s disastrous mini-Budget and memories of The Daily Star’s lettuce campaign still linger.
