The lettuce lady, reborn as Joe McCarthy:
Truss, who announced her resignation as prime minister after just 44 days in office in 2022, addressed an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), at the National Harbor, in Maryland, on Wednesday (21 February).
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Truss, who earlier this week âtook delightâ in revealing the cover for the US version of her book, Ten Years to Save the West, told the audience that she ran for Number 10 because âBritain wasnât growingâ and the âstate wasnât deliveringâ.
She went on to say: âI wanted to cut taxes, reduce the administrative state, take back control as people talked about in the Brexit referendum. What I did face was a huge establishment backlash and a lot of it actually came from the state itself.
âPeople are joining the civil service who are essentially activists,â she then claimed. âThey might be trans activists, they might be environmental extremists but they are now having a voice within the civil service in a way I donât think was true 30 or 40 years ago.