Liz Truss endorses Donald Trump to win US election
The UK’s shortest-serving PM Liz Truss has endorsed Donald Trump to win this year’s US election, saying the “world was safer” when he was in the White House.
The former prime minister said the world was “on the cusp of very, very strong conflict” and needed “a strong America more than ever”.
Her comments come as the first of Trump’s four criminal trials begin.
Trump is on course to be the Republican nomination for this November’s presidential election.
Truss says the West’s “opponents feared the Trump presidency more” than the Democrats under Joe Biden. Speaking to the BBC, she said Trump was more aggressive towards Iran and China and praised Trump’s support for Ukraine, despite Republican attempts to block military aid to the country.
“I’m not saying that I agree with absolutely everything he’s ever said,” she said.
But she added: “I do agree that under Donald Trump when he was president of the United States, the world was safer.
“I want to work with fellow conservatives to take on what I believe is a real threat of Western society and civilization being undermined by left-wing extreme ideas.”
Truss was speaking ahead of the publication of her new book, setting out her political philosophy and the dramatic short stint in Downing Street.
She argued she was forced out of office after 49 days by powerful establishment figures, including in the civil service.