Liz Truss says Donald Trump 'has to' win

Asked directly if that should be Trump, Truss replied: “It has to be.”

The former prime minister — whose chaotic Conservative administration collapsed just weeks into the job in 2022 — has only previously given tacit backing to the former president-turned-candidate.

Truss penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed last year expressing hope “a Republican will be returned to the White House in 2024.” She also spoke at the U.S. Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this year, calling for the election of Republicans “who aren’t going to cave into the establishment,” and arguing that GOP hopefuls “are more pro-Britain than the Democrats.”

Speaking to LBC Monday as she promotes a new book, Truss said Trump’s policies as president “were actually very effective.”

“He cut regulation, he cut taxes, he liberated the U.S. energy supply. And this is why the U.S. has had significantly higher economic growth than Britain,” she argued.

Trump, she added, “was more effective at preventing aggressive regimes expanding and I think we’d be in a different position if he got re-elected in 2020.”

Trump once said he thought “very highly” of Truss in a GB News interview while she was prime minister.

Truss, who also served as U.K. foreign secretary, jets off to the U.S. to promote the stateside edition of her book later this week. That tour includes a speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank on April 22.