Watch: Truss turns on the Financial Times

Where would be without Liz Truss? The blonde bombshell hit Washington DC this week to attend the great right-wing jamboree that is the Conservative Political Action Conference. Appearing alongside Trump election mastermind Steve Bannon, Truss told the crowd that she had wanted to cut taxes and the size of the state while in No.10, but ‘the economic establishment in Britain wanted to keep things the way they were – they got me.’

‘But I have learnt from that, Steve,’ she said. Bannon then interjected: ‘Hold on – was it the Economist that got you, was it the Financial Times of London, the City of London – are they the ones that run the deal over there?’ Brandishing a copy of the FT, Truss declared:

These are the friends of the bureaucratic establishment and they are the friends of the deep state and they work together with the bureaucrats, of which we’ve got many more in Britain than you have here in the US, to keep things the same.