Milei asks: who is Liz Truss?

Since coming to office in December, Javier Milei has won right-wing fans across the world for his bombastic rhetoric and fervent championing of libertarian ideas. Among them is Liz Truss, who sees Milei as very much an ideological ally. In a recent interview to promote her book, she was asked by GB News to name her favourite Tory leader other than ‘Churchill and Thatcher’. Truss thought for eight seconds and then replied ‘Well, I like Javeir Milei.’

Sadly for her it seems that the admiration is not mutual. For Milei has just done a sit-down interview with the BBC’s Ione Wells at which he was informed of the former PM’s remarks. The exchange went thus:

Wells: ‘Liz Truss recently said that you were her favourite conservative leader. Do you admire her?’

Milei: ‘Who?’

Wells: ‘Liz Truss, the former UK Prime Minister.’

Milei: ‘I don’t have elements to give an opinion but what in the UK is defined as conservative, well, we libertarians have a lot of common ground with that.