Liz Truss, Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, gave her strongest endorsement yet of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in an interview with LBC on Monday, the 15th of April, saying that Trump should be in the White House after the upcoming election, while criticising incumbent President Joe Biden, reports Politico.
“I don’t think Biden has been very supportive of the United Kingdom. I think he often sides with the European Union. And I would certainly like to see a new president in the White House,” said Truss.
Asked whether the new president should be Trump, Truss replied: “It has to be [Trump]”.
The former prime minister had previously only hinted at support for the former president, who is now running for the presidency.
Last year, Truss wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed in which she expressed the hope that “a Republican will return to the White House in 2024”. Earlier this year, she also spoke at the US Conservative Political Action Conference, calling for the election of Republicans who do not bow to establishment pressure and arguing that Republican candidates are better for Britain than Democrats.
Speaking to LBC on Monday to promote her new book, Truss said that
Trump’s policies as president “were actually very effective”.
She argued that Trump’s actions in cutting regulations, taxes and promoting energy independence in the US have led to faster economic growth compared to the UK. She added that Trump “has been more effective in preventing the expansion of aggressive regimes and I think we would be in a different situation if he were re-elected in 2020”.
Trump once said in an interview with GB News that he had “very good thoughts” about Truss when she was Prime Minister.
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