Matt Schlapp’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has invited Liz Truss, the British former Prime Minister, Liberal Democrat, and LGBT+ “ally,” to speak at their Washington D.C. conference in February.
Truss was Prime Minister for only 49 days, being ousted by Conservative party politicians after a botched “mini-budget” caused market turmoil. They replaced her with incumbent premier Rishi Sunak, who had been rejected by the party grassroots in a leadership election only weeks before.
Before her brief stint as Conservative Party leader and her post-premiership reinvention as a eurosceptic, tax-cutting culture warrior, Truss was firmly on the left of the party. Initially, she was a senior member of the far-left Liberal Democrat party.
The British politician campaigned vigorously against Brexit in 2016, helping then-Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne launch a campaign threatening voters with financial ruin if they voted to leave the European Union.
Despite recent statements against “left-wing extremists” involved in “supporting LGBT people or groups of ethnic minorities,” Truss was also a staunch “LGBT+ ally” as Minister for Women and Equalities.
She marked “International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia,” hosted conferences on advancing LGBT rights worldwide, and backed a ban on so-called conversion therapy, “spiritual or otherwise.”
CPAC has limited social media users’ ability to comment on its announcement of Truss as a guest.
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— Ben Harris-Quinney (@B_HQ) February 7, 2024
