Truss Likes Farage, and Trump

Speaking with Newsweek, Liz Truss who was briefly a Tory Prime Minister in 2022, has had an epiphany and now favors a “MAGA moment” for the UK. She thinks Trump is on the right track, one Britain should be emulating, and said she was very impressed with Charlie Kirk and admired his ability to reach young people with a conservative message.  

I think she might be willing to serve in a Farage cabinet, if Reform wins the next election. She talks about the unelected civil service being the real power in the U.K., as if this was a new idea. It is not.

Forty years ago in the 1980s two related TV sitcoms Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister had this fact as their central organizing theme. A befuddled elected MP was forever being one-upped and shut-down by a senior bureaucrat, named I believe Sir Humphrey. It was true then, it is truer now. Twas ever thus.

This interview is for Anglophiles, likely not relevant for the majority of Americans whose reaction to Britain is "meh."