Liz Truss: The Blob is infiltrating Reform
The Daily T
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4.1 • 705 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Since being forced to resign over a mini-Budget that spooked the markets, Liz Truss has become something of a bogeyman for not just the Left but the Tories too.
But Ms Truss insists she was “sabotaged” by the Bank of England and the Blob, and that Britain is being run by an “unelected technocracy”.
The former prime minister tells Tim and guest host Rachel Johnson how she was “radicalised” by being in government; why she admires Donald Trump; and, with Keir Starmer in Beijing this week, how “British officialdom is beholden to China”.
Plus, she reveals whether she would join Nigel Farage’s party, following Robert Jenrick’s defection, and warns: “the Blob is trying to infiltrate Reform”.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.7 | We're joined by Liz Truss to talk about Kirstama, how toowing to the Chinese, the evil deep state, and why she admied Donald Trump. |
| 0:18.2 | And I'm going to admit that I far prefer Liz Trussusses a mini budget to Rachel Reeves' last two budgets. |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome to The Daily Tea with me, Tim Stanley. And me, Rachel Johnson. We were together last night at an award ceremony for political podcast that both of us lost. |
| 0:46.1 | I know, but we are winning here because we're being joined by former Prime Minister and former Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. |
| 0:52.5 | Liz Truss, welcome to the Daily Tea. |
| 0:55.1 | Thank you for being here. |
| 0:56.1 | Very good to be here. |
| 0:57.2 | Would you like some tea? Well, I've got some coffee, thank you very much. You've got some coffee, you can make do with that. But because it's you, because it's you and you're such a special guest, we've got some pastries. And would you like one? We selected a marmite twist for reasons you may understand. |
| 1:14.1 | Let's go on. Look at it. No, I'm not having one of those. Sorry, what's the one in the middle? Well, that's the one I want. It's the cheese and ham Danish. That looks better. All right, we'll have to fight over that later. We'll fight over that. Do you like Marmite? I don't really I don't have strong feelings about Marmite That's a very political answer |
| 1:31.1 | Maybe it is We'll fight over that later. We'll fight over that. Do you like Marmite? I don't really, I don't have strong feelings about Marmite. That's a very political answer. But it's true. Right, okay. Like I would eat, if I was hungry, I might eat that pastry. Right. But say what? It's like a toilet. You know, it's like a non-thing. Would you say your Marmite? |
| 1:47.0 | Maybe. Maybe, yeah. |
| 1:49.4 | What do you think about Chinese food? |
| 1:51.2 | I love Chinese food. |
| 1:56.6 | Ah, well, then would you have gone to China as Kirstama did to visit Xi? |
| 2:03.1 | No, I wouldn't, but I did go to China quite a lot as a government minister. |
| 2:05.3 | And I did have some very good feed there. |
| 2:05.9 | Right. |
| 2:06.9 | Okay. |
| 2:10.0 | We're not going to talk too much about China because it's been a bit of a washout. |
| 2:11.6 | The prime minister has visited China. |
| 2:14.5 | The visit was built up a great deal. |
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