‘Political Wing Of The Flat Earth Society’: MPs Laugh As Keir Starmer Rips Tories For Liz Truss CPAC Conspiracy Peddling
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer ripped the Conservative Party for becoming “the political wing of the flat earth society” for its inaction over former Prime Minister Liz Truss’ peddling of conspiracy theories during her recent appearance at the US Conservative Political Action Conference .
What charmed right-leaning Stateside conservatives failed to convert at home for Truss, who arrived home from her trip on Tuesday. During Prime Minister’s Questions in Commons on Wednesday, Starmer used her attendance and choice of words to question the moral compass of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s party entirely.
Without naming the former prime minister, the Labour leader began: “A Tory MP spent last week claiming that Britain is run by a shadowy cabal made up of activists, the deep state and, most chillingly of all, the Financial Times. At what point did his party give up on governing and become the political wing of the Flat Earth Society?”
Frustrated Sunak shouted back across the chamber: “Another week where the honourable member is just sniping from the sidelines because he has absolutely nothing that he can say about what we do. What we’re getting on with, Mr. Speaker, is delivering on the people’s priorities.”
Starmer started on Truss once again: “Mr. Speaker, his predecessor spent last week in America trying to flog her new book. In search of fame and wealth, she’s taken to slagging off an under…”
As members of the House roared, some in laughter and some in protest, the Labour leader paused: “They made her Prime Minister and now they cannot bear talking about her.
He continued: “In search of fame and wealth, she has taken to slagging off and undermining Britain at every opportunity. She claimed that, as Prime Minister, she was sabotaged by the ‘deep state.’ She also remained silent as Tommy Robinson, that right-wing thug, was described as a hero.”
Rounding to his point he asked: “Why is he allowing her to stand as a Tory MP at the next election?”
On Thursday the former prime minister delivered a 15-minute dog whistle speech, entitled Taking Back Our Parties, that claimed a leftist-infiltrated UK establishment ousted her from power and that Western conservatives needed to “challenge” the “hostile environment” they found themselves in.
Truss then held a Q&A with Steve Bannon, former President Donald Trump’s political strategist, for the Real America’s Voice cable news channel.
The former prime minister’s US PR run coincides with the promotion of her new book, renamed and rebranded suitably for its target populist right audience as Ten Years to Save the West: Leading the Revolution Against Globalism, Socialism, and the Liberal Establishment.
Speaking engagements at CPAC have seen Truss assert herself as a conservative martyr of sorts, undermined by the “deep state” and activists within the civil service, which garnered her bemused admiration from the US fringe right and hailed as the political reincarnation of late hardline Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
