'Left-wing orthodoxy' ruined my premiership, says Liz Truss

Liz Truss accused Joe Biden of seeking to export “socialist economic policies to Europe and the UK.” Photo: Oli Scarff/AFP

Liz Truss said her premiership was derailed by resistance to the «left-wing orthodoxy» that has taken over the West.

The former prime minister insisted her tax cut agenda failed only because there was «not enough support for conservative ideas» within the establishment.

Ms Truss also took aim at Joe Biden, accusing him of seeking to export «socialist economic policies to Europe and the UK» through global rules on the minimum level of corporate tax.

Ms Truss made the remarks in an interview A year later, she became prime minister after winning the Tory leadership challenge from Rishi Sunak.

In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, she accused successive Tory leaders of they are not doing enough to rid the state of the «socialist» ideas introduced by Sir Tony Blair.

She said that by the time she entered Number 10 it was «too late», adding: «I was speaking out against the system and against an orthodoxy that was gradually moving to the left.»

«As a party, I have we done enough to lay the groundwork and truly change the architecture left behind by Blair and Brown? No, I don't think we've done enough.»

Ms Truss noted that the Bank of England and the Office for Budget Responsibility had been taken over and said the quangos had become too powerful.

< p>The former prime minister said the Tories were wrong to oust Boris Johnson even though it led to her winning the top job. She took aim at Mr Sunak, her successor in Downing Street, saying “taxes are too high and the government is too big” for Britain to prosper economically.

“Why, despite despite the fact that she was a Conservative, Member of Parliament for 13 years, despite the fact that the ideas of the Conservatives have been proven correct time and again, why are the left running? she said.

“You have the global left, of which Biden is obviously a key part, and also the global environmental movement, the Greta Thunbergs of this world, the anti-capitalist movement, and they have been very effective in promoting that what is politically acceptable.”

Ms Truss said she “really fears for the future of the West” and that “we need to get a Republican back in the White House.” She added: “ We have seen very slow growth for several decades and our culture is being questioned, even about something as basic as human biology.”