Liz Truss says UK will fail unless British media outlets are ‘fixed’
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Former PM says outlets not focused on important issues such as ‘grooming gang scandal’ highlighted by Elon Musk. Liz Truss, who has positioned herself as a champion of free speech since her short time in Downing Street, has said the country will fail unless British media outlets such as the Guardian, the Times and the BBC are “fixed”.
The former prime minister, who described herself as a “big supporter” of Elon Musk, said the media in the UK focused on the wrong issues and the situation needed to be corrected for the country to succeed. Speaking to Voice of America, Truss did not elaborate any further on the mechanism she would use to reform the media landscape. She made her comments after being asked about reports last year that she had lobbied on behalf of a constituent who wished to export landmine disposal equipment to China at a time when she was publicly calling for Beijing to be formally categorised as a “threat” to national security.
She said: “We have got a massive problem with the British media, which is they don’t focus on the important issues, whether it’s the grooming gangs that they have failed to hold bureaucrats and police officers to account on, whether it’s the debt crisis that we now have in our country with the highest levels of gild borrowing (sic), or the highest rates of borrowing since the 1990s; they’re not focused on that.
