Former UK prime minister Liz Truss has launched a fierce attack on left-wing leaders across the Anglosphere, branding Sir Keir Starmer “as unpopular and arbitrary as King John” and warning of a decades-long battle to defend Western values.

Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Brisbane, Ms Truss said she had come “hotfoot from London” and felt optimistic after seeing “the most amazing leadership” from Donald Trump during his recent visit to Britain.

“We saw a leader who is advocating the deportation of illegal immigrants, who’s advocating low taxes, who’s advocating energy abundance, who’s advocates fracking, who says that men are men and women are women,” she said.

Ms Truss contrasted Trump’s actions with what she described as the failures of governments in

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