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EXCLUSIVE: Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Liz Truss is acceptable to bring the "conservative revolution" location from the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference, telling Fox News Digital her program to "Make the West Great Again."
World leaders took halfway signifier astatine CPAC this week, telling the assemblage of American conservatives they’re acceptable to spot President Donald Trump’s docket connected the satellite stage. Truss, the shortest-serving premier curate successful British history, said satellite leaders are envious of Trump’s 2nd word and his Department of Government Efficiency.
"There's a batch of momentum, and radical are precise envious of what's happening successful the U.S. We'd emotion to beryllium capable to get the information from authorities departments astir what's really being spent," Truss told Fox News Digital.
Truss praised Elon Musk’s DOGE arsenic a "playbook for what needs to happen" successful the United Kingdom, but she said that a DOGE UK would beryllium unrealistic nether Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s leadership.
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"What Musk is doing, going consecutive to the outgo system, is simply a fantastic thought that we request to follow successful Britain, but the world is that is not going to hap nether the existent government, due to the fact that the existent authorities are portion of the problem. They are defenders of the heavy state. They're not going to beryllium investigating themselves. I deliberation this is thing that has to hap erstwhile there's a alteration of government. We are watching precise intimately what Elon Musk is doing. It's a fantastic playbook for what needs to hap successful the U.K."
DOGE’s revelations astir America’s national backing and the wide layoffs of authorities employees person shaken up Washington this past month. Truss said that Musk is adjacent holding the British authorities accountable.
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"Sometimes I accidental that Elon Musk is the person of the absorption successful Britain, due to the fact that he's the 1 really connected X, challenging Keir Starmer's policies, talking astir issues similar the grooming gangs, the appalling gangs who person been raping girls arsenic young arsenic 12. It's Elon Musk that's been taking the combat to Keir Starmer," she said.
Musk and Trump’s quality to prehend the societal media communicative and America’s increasing autarkic media abstraction inspired Truss to found a "new escaped code media network" successful the United Kingdom.
"We person a monolithic occupation with escaped code successful Britain," Truss said. "People are being locked up for posts connected Facebook and connected X, which is extraordinary. We're the state that invented state of the property backmost successful 1695. It was astir 100 years earlier the First Amendment. And present we are, arsenic a country, locking radical up for saying things online."
"This needs to change. So, what I'm establishing is simply a caller escaped code media network, which volition alteration radical successful Britain to perceive what is really going on, and radical crossed Europe to perceive what's going on." she continued. "I deliberation that's truly important. If you look astatine the Trump revolution, autarkic media was a large portion of that."
Trump leaned connected caller media during his 2024 statesmanlike campaign, posting TikTok videos from the run trail, spending astir 3 hours with the wide fashionable podcaster Joe Rogan and utilizing Truth Social arsenic a nonstop enactment to his halfway base.
Truss said that Trump is starring a "conservative revolution" and attended CPAC this twelvemonth to larn however she tin exemplary his American occurrence backmost successful the United Kingdom.
"What we're seeing happening successful America is simply a revolution. It's a blimpish revolution. All of the problems we person successful our societies successful the West, the leftist ideology that's taken over, whether it's wokeism oregon utmost environmentalism oregon anti-capitalism, each of those are being taken connected by President Trump. And I privation to spot a akin gyration successful Britain, which is wherefore I'm present to larn astir however they're doing it, to speech astir however we physique that benignant of question successful Britain," Truss said.
The erstwhile premier curate said she agrees with Trump connected "everything from deporting amerciable migrants; to cutting taxes; to drill, baby, drill; to being wide that men can't beryllium successful women's bathrooms." She said Britain needs to instrumentality these policies and occurrence the "permanent bureaucrats who are portion of the problem."
"The large quality with Britain is our bureaucracy is much almighty than the American bureaucracy. Most radical moving successful authorities are vocation bureaucrats, and that's what I deliberation we request to larn from America. We request to change," Truss added.
Truss said she has had productive conversations with European and satellite leaders this week, strategizing astir however to broaden their blimpish conjugation and make policies to bring vigor prices down and boost the economy. Truss adjacent said she had plans for a British CPAC.
Truss resigned arsenic British premier curate aft 49 days successful bureau successful 2022 aft her ample taxation chopped program destabilized the economy. She was 1 of 3 premier ministers successful the United Kingdom wrong a four-month play successful 2022.
"I admit that, fixed the situation, I cannot present the mandate connected which I was elected by the Conservative Party," Truss said successful her resignation.
The United Kingdom’s existent premier curate and person of the Labour Party, Keir Starmer, ended 14 consecutive years of Conservative enactment regularisation erstwhile helium was elected successful 2024.
There is simply a UK DOGE question gaining traction connected societal media for revealing wasteful British spending. The Procurement Files is an X relationship that combs done much than 300,000 contracts connected the United Kingdom’s nationalist authorities database to uncover mismanagement of British payer money, overmuch similar the authoritative US DOGE relationship does.
Nigel Farage, the Reform UK enactment person who initiated Britain’s departure from the European Union, has explicitly called for a UK DOGE. Despite the discontent from blimpish leaders connected British authorities efficiency, the premier minister’s bureau said that it has created initiatives to chopped authorities waste.
"The Chancellor has asked each departments to present savings and efficiencies of 5% of their existent fund arsenic portion of the archetypal zero-based Spending Review successful seventeen years," an HM Treasury spokesperson said successful a connection to Fox News Digital.
"Every lb of authorities spending is being interrogated, to basal retired discarded and get the champion worth for taxpayers arsenic we present connected their priorities acceptable retired successful the Plan for Change. We person besides created an Office for Value for Money that is underpinning our enactment driving retired discarded and inefficiency, alongside cutting retired hundreds of millions of pounds worthy of consultancy spending successful authorities implicit the adjacent fewer years," the spokesperson added.
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