LIZ Truss will launch a new “Popular Conservatism” movement aimed at restoring “democratic accountability”.
The former prime minister, the shortest-serving in UK history, will speak at an event in central London alongside four members of her Cabinet next month.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, who served as business secretary in Truss’s short-lived premiership, Simon Clarke and Ranil Jayawardena will also speak at the event on February 6.
An advertisement for the event said the “PopCon” movement would aim to “restore democratic accountability to Britain and deliver popular conservative policies”.
It is one of a number of fringe movements which have been established by members of the governing Conservative Party in recent years.
Last year saw a headline-grabbing meeting of Conservative MPs and thinkers including the controversial academic Douglas Murray, at the National Conservative conference.
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That event saw then-home secretary Suella Braverman warn that mass immigration threatened Britain’s “national character” and influential Tory backbencher Miriam Cates bemoan Britain’s declining birthrate and lashing out at “cultural Marxism”.
Truss became Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister ever in 2022, when she lasted just 49 days in office.
Her ministry featured the notorious but short-lived “mini-budget,” which fuelled financial instability by funding tax cuts for the wealthy with borrowing.
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