Liz Truss warns of DEEP STATE threat under Andy Burnham - 'Fight back against the left-wing!'

Now, the former Prime Minister, Liz Truss, is leading the first UK-hosted Conservative Political Action Conference today in central London, and she kicked off proceedings this morning with a tribute, a moving tribute, to the murdered Anne Widdicombe. Well, let's bring in GB News reporter Will Godley, who's at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Will, thank you very much for joining us this morning. Very moving tribute from Liz Truss. It's a fitting time for this conference, with all of these people gathered in a room who are so similar in so many ways to Anne Widdicombe. What's the mood like on the ground? Well, good morning to both of you. This is the first time a CPAC conference has been held in Great Britain. It's been going on in America for about 50 years, but this is the inaugural one here. It was brought to the UK by Liz Truss, former Prime Minister to the UK, and she's joining me now. Liz, thank you very much for joining us on GB News. Great to be on the show. Now, you started the conference today with a very moving, emotional tribute to Anne Widdicombe. You were fighting back tears as you gave very fitting words about her character and what she was like. Why did you feel it was important for you to start today's conference with this tribute? I mean, Anne exemplified the values that we are fighting for here at CPAC. She believed in patriotism, she believed in the family, she believed in free speech, which is a major theme of this conference, and the cruel way that she was murdered, for apparently – and we're hearing the types of reasons that it could be – I think it's just devastated everybody because a lot of people here are her friends, they knew her personally, they worked with her on politics, and I felt that it was very, very important that we paid our respects to her. And when you were paying tribute to her, you spoke about having known her for 20 years. What are some of your favourite memories of Anne in those 20 years? Well, I remember a garden party we attended with Anne, and my daughter was a baby at the time, and Anne held my daughter, and we were playing and joking, and she was a great fun person. And more recently, I've interviewed her on my show, you know, talking about policing and justice. She was deeply experienced. I was Justice Secretary back in 2016, and I remember prison officers were still talking about Anne Whittacombe, the former prison minister. They were still talking about her, and she was an immense figure in British politics, and I think undervalued as well. And no doubt would have been very supportive of what you're doing here with CPAC GB. You brought it here from America with the tagline, Save Britain, Save the West. What does that mean? What does Britain need saving from? Well, we're all facing the same battle. We have had the progressive establishment infiltrate our institutions. We're even seeing this in the police. We're seeing it in our education system, and what do I mean by that? I mean people who believe in high taxes. They believe in open borders. They believe in transgender ideology. And a lot of people feel that we are losing our country. And it's not just a battle that we're fighting in Britain. It's a battle across Europe. We've got a lot of European speakers coming because they're finding the same battle in their countries. I mean, look at policies like net zero. No one voted for these policies, but they've driven our energy bills sky high. So it's fighting back against the left-wing establishment. That's what CPAC's about. Well, I mean... When you're browsing the internet at home, you give up a large amount of data to businesses, to shops, and indeed to social media giants too. Hackers have the ability to steal your personal data with ease, including sensitive information such as passwords, keystrokes, and even your personal photos. 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The people, if it's in, if it's in, if Britain is in such a great state, why is Keir Starmer leaving office? I mean, it doesn't, he is just lying. He is just lying. And by the way, Andy Burnham is going to be no better and they're going to find that out very soon. Well, I mean, let's move on to Andy Burnham. You spoke about him in your introduction. You asked members of the audience to give a cheer if they liked him. It was a resounding boos. What are your thoughts on Andy Burnham? What do you think we'll see from him as a Prime Minister? I don't think, as I said in my speech, that anything is fundamentally going to change because we still have the same people running the Treasury, running the Bank of England, running our police, running our justice system. Blair essentially rigged the system against the kind of values I believe in. Free speech, patriotism. We've now got a very left-wing establishment. So I think people in Britain are unhappy with that. That's why we saw Keir Starmer being replaced with Burnham. But I don't believe the policies are going to change. And what people are really angry about is the policies, not necessarily the person in number 10. But the policies you championed, the country didn't get behind. You ousted from office after just 49 days, I believe. Well, I was sabotaged by people inside the government, notably the Bank of England. The day before, we announced our mini-budget. They announced that they were selling £80 billion worth of government gilts. I didn't know about that. And subsequently, they have admitted, the Bank of England have admitted, that it was their creation of the market chaos, not mine. But unfortunately, we have a pretty biased media who is not interested in reporting that. How can the Prime Minister of the UK not know that, though? Well, this is the problem we've got with our system. What Blair did is he created all of these independent bodies who weren't accountable, including the Bank of England. And actually, Keir Starmer had a similar issue with Ollie Robbins, the head of the Foreign Office. He didn't tell Keir Starmer things because he wasn't allowed to, because of the laws that have been passed. I'm telling everybody who's watching this show, we have a system that is now ungovernable and needs to be changed. It's not just the Prime Minister. We're now on the seventh Prime Minister within a decade. Maybe there's another problem. That's what people need to be thinking about. What do you think the problem is with having this revolving door of Prime Ministers? I think the problem is that too much power has been given to unelected bureaucrats and unelected judges. And they are not accountable and they are ideologically motivated in favour of things like open borders, high taxes, net zero. And until we deal with that, we're not really going to change our country. That's why we keep changing Prime Ministers, but nothing really changes. We could have a new Chancellor as well. That's something lots of people are speculating on today. Who do you think will be Chancellor? Who would you like to see as Chancellor under an Andy Burnham government? As I've said, the Chancellor is not really the person that's running the economy. It's the Bank of England and the Treasury officials. So I don't think it will make any difference to the policies whatsoever. I don't really care which place Manor is. I read in the press that it's likely to be Shabana Mahmood. I don't think it fundamentally makes a difference. I'm very happy to come on your show in six months' time and we can talk about whether anything has actually changed. My prediction is it won't have. OK, Liz Truss, thank you very much for joining us on GB News. Amazing chatting to you. Thanks for talking to us and good luck with the rest of your conference. Fascinating stuff here from CPAC. Well, Godly, thank you so much for that. And always good to hear from the former Prime Minister.