Liz launches the PopCon revolution...
LIZ Truss believes Britain is “full of secret Conservatives” who need to be given a voice to take on “woke elites” harming the nation.
The ex-Prime Minister made the rallying call at the launch of the Popular Conservatism movement.
The PopCon group says it is targeting “extreme Left-wing” ideology, which it claims is imbedded in politics and institutions.
Ms Truss told at the Emmanuel Centre in London: “Britain is full of secret Conservatives, people who agree with us but don’t want to admit it, because they think it’s not acceptable in their place of work or their school.
“People who are prepared to put their heads above the parapet and come out as Conservative candidates and make Conservative arguments that are vitally important. This organisation is not just about the members of parliament,
the candidates, it’s about supporting all of you to make those arguments with friends and colleagues.
“We need to provide each other with support because the Left is tough. The Left have been on the march – in our institutions, in our corporate world.” MsTruss claimed the Tory Party had failed to take on “repurposed” Marxists who “called themselves other names to hide collective ideology”.
She warned: “They say they’re environmentalists, they’re in favour of helping people across all communities, supporting LGBT people or more groups of ethnic minorities. So they no longer admit what their ideology is about.” Other speakers included Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and ex-Tory Party deputy Lee Anderson. Former home secretary Priti Patel also attended.
Sir Jacob called for the UK to leave the ECHR.
Accountable
He mocked ex-PM Sir Tony Blair, saying: “What we have seen Tony Blair so cleverly do was construct the socialist state, where the rights of the individual are subject to the collective and the collective is taken out of the Commons and put into the hands of ‘wise men’. This support for the collective has taken away individual rights to choose, to be democratically accountable.”
The meeting came as Ms Truss’s former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng said he would be stepping down as MP for Spelthorne in Surrey at the next election.