Liz Truss has endorsed Donald Trump “or whoever the Republicans choose as their nominee” as the next US President and said the values he would bring to the White House are what the world needs.
The former Prime Minister spoke exclusively to Express.co.uk at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington DC where she was the star attraction of the first day of the four-day event.
Asked if she wanted to see Trump back in the White House she said: “Yes”.
But wth Nikki Haley still in the race, she qualified it by saying: “I want whoever the Republicans choose, I have done enough blue on blue at home to not want to get involved with red on red for the Republicans in America.”
She explained: “I think first of all that we need peace through strength and I think that is where what we would see if the Republicans get back in and also, I think the Republicans are more pro-Britain than Democrats.”
Speaking about what she likes about the much tougher for of conservative politics in the US, Ms Truss suggested Americans are much more willing to fight for their values.
She told Express.co.uk: “First of all, they’re prepared to fight, which I think is really important. And they understand the threat of leftists and that you can’t triangulate these people when they’re actually advocating terrorism, they’re advocating communism, in some cases, anti-capitalism, and we have to take them on.
“So it’s partly the attitude that I think is good, but also the very strong grounding in conservative principles.
“I want to we should be focused on core principles like national sovereignty, parliamentary sovereignty, liberty, small government, low taxes, belief in the family and the individual making decisions. So those are the types of principles I want us to see, as we talk more about about conservative conference.”
Laying out how she believes American conservative policies could translate in the UK, she said: “What I want us to be as bold in our manifesto, and this is what we set out at the launch of Popular Conservatism, that in order to protect our way of life in Britain, we actually need to change our institutions.
“I think the bureaucratic state, or the quangocracy, as we call it, in Britain has become pretty powerful. I think the points Jacob Rees-Mogg was making about the judiciary following Tony Blair’s constitutional vandalism is also very valid.
“I want to see a restoration of parliamentary sovereignty. I want to see, to me it’s not populism, it’s democratic accountability. It’s actually delivering what people in our constituencies voted for that’s democracies.”
Ms Truss was last night pictured with Trump’s friend and her political opponent Nigel Farage at an event they both attended and were sat together.
But she said she was not considering supporting doing a deal with Reform UK.
However, she added: “If he [Farage] applies to join the Conservative Party then I would welcome that. I think the Prime Minister has said that too.”
