Liz Truss Calls for Tory-Reform Alliance to Challenge Labour

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Liz Truss has urged true blue Conservative MPs to join forces with Reform UK, arguing that the best elements of both parties should work together to remove Labour from power. The former prime minister suggested that many of the remaining Tory MPs are not truly conservative and lack the will to implement the “radical change” that Reform and the Tory Right demand.  

 

Speaking to TalkTV, Truss claimed that many Conservative MPs are unwilling to pursue policies such as leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), repealing the Human Rights Act, scrapping net zero commitments, holding the Bank of England accountable, or increasing judicial oversight. She insisted that these are the measures Britain needs and called on the Tory leadership to clarify its stance. “They don’t want to leave the ECHR, they don’t want to repeal the Human Rights Act, they don’t want to get rid of net zero,” she said. “They don’t want to make the Bank of England accountable, they don’t want to make the judiciary accountable and that’s what the country needs.”  

 

Truss expressed skepticism that the current Tory MPs would embrace such an agenda. “I suspect quite a lot of Conservative MPs would not support [that] agenda. I know they didn’t when I was in office, and I see no evidence that the 121 who are left are the radical part of the Conservative Party,” she said. However, she believes public pressure could help bring about a realignment of the political right, stating, “What I’d like to see is I’d like to see the best of the Conservatives and the best of Reform get together. I mean, God knows how that will happen, but if there is enough pressure from the public.”  

 

Truss pointed to public outcry over issues such as grooming gangs and Labour’s proposed family farm tax as evidence that frustration with governance is growing. “We’re seeing people now rising up about how badly the country is governed and that momentum needs to form into a political movement,” she said.  

 

Kemi Badenoch, the current Tory leader, has dismissed the idea of a merger with Reform as “for the birds.” However, several high-profile Conservatives, including former cabinet ministers Esther McVey, Sir Brandon Lewis, and Suella Braverman, have voiced support for some form of cooperation between the two parties.  

 

Reform UK has surged ahead of the Conservatives in opinion polls, now leading them by an average of more than five percentage points. The party has also seen a rapid increase in membership, surpassing 200,000 members in under three months—significantly more than the last known Conservative Party membership figure of 131,680.  

 

Dominic Cummings, the former chief adviser to Boris Johnson and a vocal critic of Badenoch, has encouraged voters to back Reform in the upcoming local elections in May, suggesting it could help force a leadership change within the Conservative Party. He also floated the idea that Donald Trump and Elon Musk could play a role in brokering a deal between the two parties.  

 

Despite growing calls for an alliance, Nigel Farage has repeatedly ruled out any pact with the Tories, accusing them of no longer being an “honourable” party and stating his intention to “destroy” them.

 

Based on a report by Daily Telegraph  2025-02-21

 

 

[JonnyF]

For the sake of the country, they certainly need to do something to avoid splitting the right wing vote and allowing Labour in by default.

 

Unfortunately, while the Tories contain the likes of leftist simp Rory Stewart, they are a lost cause. They need a good clear out of the "liberals" destroying them from within. 

 

However, I fear they are a busted flush and should probably disband. 

[Chomper Higgot]

Liz Truss.

 

I guess she’s hoping voters have forgotten the mess she made during her short tenure at No10.

 

Now she’s telling us she has the cure for the mess she herself is largely responsible for.

 

Right?

 

She doesn’t seem right at all.

 

 

 

[newbee2022]

Yeah, Liz Truss is the right one to fight 🤗🤣😄. Probably it's boring at home just spending her pension as an Ex-PM🤗

[Thingamabob]

5 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Liz Truss.

 

I guess she’s hoping voters have forgotten the mess she made during her short tenure at No10.

 

Now she’s telling us she has the cure for the mess she herself is largely responsible for.

 

Right?

 

She doesn’t seem right at all.

 

 

 

The clown running the BoE was largely responsible for the mess.

[peter48]

This is a Prime Minister with the shortest time in office ever. Tories dropped her.  She tried to pass a budget based on lower taxation & it was rejected on the global bond/gilt markets with interest soaring to rates UK govt would not have been able to pay for long. Private pension systems were close to collapse & BOE intervened to save UK finance. 

She appeared on a stage this week supporting Trump after he called Ukraine pesident a dictator. She is raving bonkers. 

 

Fortunately the adults are back running the economy and saving the collapsed Tory smashed public services with economic growth, more house building, decent pay and wages increasing, quicker cancer appointments, more nurses, medics, teachers, police, more foreign investment into our economy, increased green technology,  etc., 

 

It will take time but UK internationally wirh closer ties to EU is on the up. This is seen by Bloomberg or the FT and top economists so do not take the hate Daily Mail or Daily Depress as your sources - those right wing rags supported 14 yrs of Tory disaster incuding austerity, highest Covid deathis in Europe bar Belguim, Brexit, Johnson, Truss etc. 

[Red Forever]

26 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

The clown running the BoE was largely responsible for the mess.

Wrong. The “clown” running the Bank of England was responsible for ameliorating the mess that Truss inflicted upon the UK.

This is just Truss pleading that she remains relevant.

Still, it’s good to see the far right fighting like rats in a sack.

[Thingamabob]

1 minute ago, Red Forever said:

Wrong. The “clown” running the Bank of England was responsible for ameliorating the mess that Truss inflicted upon the UK.

This is just Truss pleading that she remains relevant.

Still, it’s good to see the far right fighting like rats in a sack.

Not in my opinion. Have a nice day..

[Chomper Higgot]

38 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

The clown running the BoE was largely responsible for the mess.

Let me get this right.

 

The same ‘clown’ was running the BoE, nothing happened.

 

Until Truss turned up with her lunatic ideas and all hell broke loose.

 

But it was the fault of the ‘clown’ running the BoE.

 

 

[youreavinalaff]

1 hour ago, peter48 said:

Fortunately the adults are back running the economy and saving the collapsed Tory smashed public services with economic growth, more house building, decent pay and wages increasing, quicker cancer appointments, more nurses, medics, teachers, police, more foreign investment into our economy, increased green technology,  etc., 

That was their pledge. 

 

All they have to now is start.

[stupidfarang]

1 hour ago, Thingamabob said:

The clown running the BoE was largely responsible for the mess.

along with the ringmaster truss

[Purdey]

She was one of the worst prime ministers ever. She is no longer relevant.

[OneMoreFarang]

Some people just don't realize when it's time to go away. 

How much more damage does she want to do? 

[3NUMBAS]

Yes may and truss the very worst of the lot ,nothing accomplished ,a pair of dunces

full of wind  

[RayC]

48 minutes ago, Purdey said:

She was one of the worst prime ministers ever.

 

One of?

 

48 minutes ago, Purdey said:

 

She is no longer relevant.

 

Sadly, she is so deluded that she thinks she is.