Liz Truss suggests UK should get right to bear arms due to ‘state abusing power’

Britain’s briefest prime minister Liz Truss has said she can ‘see the logic’ behind the US right to bear arms due to ‘the way citizens are being suppressed’.

The ex-PM, who lasted just 49 days in the top job in autumn 2022, told the tiny audience for her eponymous YouTube show the state was ‘misusing its power’.

She was speaking to her guest Greg Bovino, the controversial former boss of Donald Trump’s Border Patrol.

Bovino gained notoriety for his handling of an immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, where two American citizens were killed in the space of three weeks in January.

He was removed from the city by the Trump administration shortly after he accused intensive care nurse Alex Pretti of brandishing a gun before he was shot dead by officials – a claim contradicted by bystander footage.

During the interview, Truss asked if he would be ‘willing to come over to Britain and give advice and help solve the problem’.

Bovino replied ‘you bet’, before saying: ‘Your citizens are going to continue to die at the hands of illegal aliens.’

When the conversation turned to the US constitution’s second amendment, which allows citizens to carry guns and other weapons, Truss claimed Brits had the same right ‘in Anglo-Saxon times’, adding: ‘I think it was removed by the French’.

She continued: ‘I can see the logic of the right to bear arms.

‘When you see the state misusing its power and the way that citizens are being suppressed in Britain on issues like free speech, you can see the logic of the founding fathers in having the right to bear arms as a key part of the American constitution.’

The video has gained fewer than 1,500 views 18 hours after it was posted.

It was recorded at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas, described as the biggest right-wing festival in the US.

Truss used the event to call for a ‘Trump-style revolution’ in the UK, while also announcing she was bringing CPAC to her side of the Atlantic in July.

According to the Guardian, top British right-wing figures including Reform leader Nigel Farage, former top Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg and Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch quickly made clear they had no plans to appear.

There was further humiliation for Truss on Monday evening when Badenoch incorrectly suggested she ‘doesn’t even live in the country’ during an appearance on LBC.

Asked by presenter Iain Dale if the ex-prime minister had really moved abroad, Badenoch said: ‘I don’t see her here, she’s always in the US so I assumed she’d moved. Has she not?’

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