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Ms Truss made the claims to a US audience when she attended the big conservative conference CPAC
PRIME Minister Rishi Sunak has mocked his predecessor Liz Truss’s claims she was ousted by the “Deep State”.
Ms Truss reckoned a shadowy network of bureaucrats and enemies were behind her 2022 downfall, just 44 days into her premiership.
Quizzed if he was a member of the so-called Deep State, Mr Sunak told MPs: “I probably wouldn’t tell you if I was.”
Asked if he believed the claims, he batted away questions, suggesting the Commons Liaison Committee quiz Ms Truss instead.
But asked later if the PM found the idea of a Deep State ridiculous, his spokesman replied: “No”.
Ms Truss told a US audience last month she had faced “a huge establishment backlash — and a lot of it actually came from the state itself”.
She added: “What has happened in Britain over the past 30 years is power that used to be in the hands of politicians has been moved to quangos and bureaucrats and lawyers so what you find is a democratically elected government actually unable to enact policies.”
Ms Truss had the shortest premiership in British history of 45 days.
Her tax cutting spree on top of an energy price freeze sparked a run on the Pound and the biggest self-enforced financial meltdown in British political history.
Less than a week after the national mourning period for Queen Elizabeth II ended, Truss and best-friend Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng shocked Britain and beyond by unleashing the biggest set of tax cuts in more than 50 years, worth more than £44billion.
Their extraordinary “mini-Budget” reversed the National Insurance rise, scrapped the rise in Corporation Tax, cut stamp duty and abolished the 45p top rate of income tax.
And when Mr Kwarteng declared that was “just the start”, the markets spooked and went into meltdown.
Both Tory MPs and the public concluded ‘disruptor in chief’ Truss was the storm and not the solution.