Liz Truss claims ‘people don’t want WOKE policies’ as she appears at CPAC

Liz Truss, the former British prime minister, has said “people don’t want woke policies” as she appeared at a Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington DC.

Talking to Nigel Farage after her speech, the Tory MP said that she knows “what the public wants”.

She said: “I know the public wants us to deal with immigration, they want us to cut regulation, they want us to have lower taxes. Too often there is a circle within the M25 that has stopped that from happening and that is why we need to galvanise and get that technology.”

Farage asked the former PM if the British Conservative movement could ever do an event that is on the same scale as CPAC and she responded with “of course”.

Farage said: “Isn’t it interesting that what you see here is people with quite similar visions, for the way that they want the countries to be run for the way that they see the world? This is generally international now, isn’t it?

She explained: “Yes. Because this is what every human being wants.

“Margret Thatcher says that when people are free to choose, they choose freedom.

“It is so true. People want control of their own lives, they don’t want the Government telling them what to do.

“They don’t want these woke policies inflicted on them, the problem is that the leftist activists have been very assiduous at pushing that agenda.

“This is why we need a Conservative movement that challenges that.”

This year’s lineup of speakers on the main CPAC stage includes Trump, Truss, Farage and Argentinian president Javier Milei, a libertarian known to fans as “the madman” and “the wig”.

An advert for Truss’s book, Ten Years to Save the West, was prominently displayed at the CPAC venue

Speaking at the event Truss said: “I ran for office in 2022 because Britain wasn’t growing, the state wasn’t delivering, [and] we needed to do more.

“I wanted to cut taxes, reduce the administrative state, take back control as people talked about in the Brexit referendum.

“What I did face was a huge establishment backlash and a lot of it actually came from the state itself.

“What has happened in Britain over the past 30 years is power that used to be in the hands of politicians has been moved to quangos and bureaucrats and lawyers so what you find is a democratically elected government actually unable to enact policies.”