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Fri Feb 23, 2024, 01:39 PM Feb 2024

Sunak urged to act against Truss for spreading rightwing conspiracy theories

Source: The Guardian

Sunak urged to act against Truss for spreading rightwing conspiracy theories

Ex-PM appears with former Trump strategist Steve Bannon and talks of ‘deep state’ ousting her from power

Rowena Mason Whitehall editor
Fri 23 Feb 2024 15.44 GMT
Last modified on Fri 23 Feb 2024 16.25 GMT

Rishi Sunak should take action against Liz Truss for appearing alongside the far-right commentator Steve Bannon and spreading conspiracy theories about the “deep state” ousting her from power, Labour has said.

During appearances at the Conservative Political Action Conference (Cpac), the former prime minister, who spent only seven weeks in power in 2022, appeared to be making the case for a comeback and relaunching her career in the UK.

She told a rightwing audience in Maryland in the US that her wing of UK conservatives needed a “bigger bazooka” to take on the “hostile environment” in which they were operating, taking aim at institutions that she claimed had thwarted her.

Truss also appeared alongside Bannon, a former strategist to Donald Trump, on Real America’s Voice, a far-right TV channel, in a hallway outside the main conference auditorium.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/23/sunak-urged-to-act-against-truss-for-spreading-rightwing-conspiracy-theories

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Sunak urged to act against Truss for spreading rightwing conspiracy theories (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2024 OP
They're all just disruptors bucolic_frolic Feb 2024 #1
Bannon should be put on a terrorist list. slightlv Feb 2024 #2
We saw his "perp walk" when is he going to be locked up?? Rhiannon12866 Feb 2024 #3
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