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In an unique interview with Fox Information Digital, Liz Truss pulls again the curtain on what actually occurred throughout her 49-day reign as Prime Minister of the UK in 2022.
The free speech advocate served simply 49 days as British prime minister in 2022 earlier than resigning amid market turmoil over her administration’s dramatic try to implement a pro-growth financial agenda. Now that the mud has settled, Truss has launched a personal membership for “pro-growth leaders,” the Leconfield, and a YouTube present, “The Liz Truss Present.”
“My new present will inform the reality about what occurred in 2022,” Truss informed Fox Information Digital. “The truth that I used to be sabotaged by the Financial institution of England, who introduced the sale of gilts the day earlier than my mini-budget after which didn’t correctly regulate the pension market. That was truly the reason for the disaster in 2022.”
Whereas Truss is now recasting the narrative on the Financial institution of England, the monetary establishment has blamed Truss for the British market crash of 2022, concluding that her mini-budget triggered a sudden plunge in gilt costs, driving up the federal government’s borrowing prices. The spike rippled throughout monetary markets, pushing pension funds to dump gilts and forcing the Financial institution of England to intervene to stabilize the market.
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Former Prime Minister of the UK Liz Truss speaks on the Conservative Political Motion Convention (CPAC) on Feb. 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs)
The Financial institution of England declined to remark when reached by Fox Information Digital.
“I might be speaking about that. I am going to even be speaking in regards to the conservatives in identify solely who undermined me whereas I used to be in energy,” Truss stated of her present, eliciting President Donald Trump’s “RINO” nickname for Republicans in identify solely who thwart his agenda.
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It is not Truss’ solely commonality with Trump.
“I am very pissed off by the mainstream media,” Truss stated. “I share President Trump’s annoyance with the BBC. He’s at the moment suing them for propagating faux information about him, however they do faux information the entire time.”
Trump has introduced plans to file a $5 billion lawsuit towards the British Broadcasting Company over an edit of his Jan. 6, 2021, remarks that appeared in a BBC investigative sequence. The BBC didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
Truss stated she desires her YouTube present to “assist change the financial and political debate in Britain.”
“I do know the reality wasn’t informed about my time as prime minister,” Truss stated. “That is very irritating, however I find out about different points, whether or not it is free speech or migration, individuals are not listening to about what’s truly taking place in Britain, so I would like my present to inform the reality and to listen to from the folks which can be the victims of those issues.”
Truss’ early friends included Trump-ally Steve Bannon and British political commentator Matt Goodwin. The previous prime minister spoke to Fox Information Digital in Washington, D.C., forward of its inaugural episode.
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss delivers her resignation speech outdoors 10 Downing Avenue in London, England, on Oct. 20, 2022. (Rob Pinney/Getty Photographs)
“I would like America, to begin with, to know what occurs once you lose issues like free speech, and also you lose the battle on mass migration, and also you lose the battle on the financial system,” Truss stated. “It is a warning for America, however I additionally need to get inspiration from what’s occurred right here at combating again towards these forces, and that is what the present is about. I need to encourage folks. It is not simply doom and gloom. It’s about what can we truly do? How can we get a Trump-style revolution in Britain and Europe to make our nations nice once more?”
On the core of the cultural battles dominating fashionable tradition, Truss stated, “All of those folks hate Western civilization.”
“They hate the nation state,” Truss continued. “They need to undermine the household, and that’s the reason I am so captivated with combating again towards them, as a result of I imagine in our nation. I imagine within the Christian values that fashioned Britain and America. I imagine in free speech, and I believe we’re simply in actual hazard of dropping them to those forces.”
Truss has applauded Trump’s management on the world stage, calling him “very forward-leaning” in negotiating peace within the Center East.
Truss stated she desires an answer in Ukraine, however not one which makes President Vladimir Putin seem to stroll away from the battle on his personal phrases. She urged Europe to “step up” and “spend extra of our personal cash on protection” — reflecting many congressional Republicans’ message because the warfare in Ukraine has waged on.
President Donald Trump throughout a cupboard assembly on the White Home in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Yuri Gripas/CNP/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)
Congress has voted to ship greater than $175 billion to Ukraine because the warfare started, in response to The Council on International Relations. And whereas the U.S. has dedicated extra help to Ukraine than another nation, European nations have collectively dedicated greater than the U.S.
“We have to develop our economies to be ready to have the ability to stand as much as Putin ourselves,” Truss stated.
Whereas Trump continues to pursue peace negotiations within the Center East and between Russia and Ukraine, Truss applauded the president for taking motion towards suspected drug traffickers from Venezuela.
“There’s undoubtedly very, very severe points with Venezuela, and it is sadly a rustic that was profitable and wealthy and has now been ruined basically by a communist regime,” Truss stated. “I perceive the US must take motion as a result of the cartels that come out of nations like Venezuela are a direct safety menace to the US.”
Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss arrives at a Remembrance Sunday Ceremony in London on Nov. 9, 2025. (Ilyas Tayfun Salci/Anadolu through Getty Photographs)
The Trump administration deployed two fighter jets over the Gulf of Venezuela on Tuesday and has confronted scrutiny in latest days for allegedly authorizing a second strike on suspected drug trafficking boats in Venezuela.
The White Home informed Fox Information Digital final week that as commander in chief, Trump has “full authority to make use of each ingredient of American energy to cease medicine from flooding into our nation.”
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“As President Trump has stated, all choices are on the desk as he works to fight the scourge of narcoterrorism that has resulted within the pointless deaths of 1000’s of harmless Individuals,” White Home spokeswoman Anna Kelly stated in a press release to Fox Information Digital. “All of those decisive strikes have been in worldwide waters towards designated narcoterrorists bringing lethal poison to our shores.”
Fox Information Digital’s Diana Stacy contributed to this report.
