莉兹·特拉斯将在新书中“分享她在政府工作中的经验教训”
这位前首相将她在 49 天首相任期内垮台的原因之一归咎于保守党思想缺乏支持
唐娜·弗格森 (Donna Ferguson) 和代理机构 2023 年 9 月 9 日
莉兹·特拉斯正在写一本关于她担任总理 49 天的书，书中将辩称她垮台的主要原因是缺乏“对保守党思想的支持” — — 以及对“全球左派”的支持过多。
这位前首相希望看到“保守派运动复兴”，并决定“分享她在政府任职期间的经验教训”，她“常常是房间里唯一的保守派”。
这本书《拯救西方的十年》被吹捧为对威权主义和“全球左派传播的时尚思想”威胁的警告——她指责这一运动破坏了她的总理任期。
这位前外交大臣现在是保守党后座议员，她将写下她在女王去世前不久与女王的会面，以及她与俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京和中国国家主席习近平的经历。
特拉斯在一份声明中表示：“我想分享我在政府和国际会议上的经验教训，在这些会议上我常常是房间里唯一的保守派，并表明如果我们希望避免有控制的衰退，我们必须做出严峻的选择 西方建筑的典范，它见证了几代人的相对和平与繁荣。”
她在接受《星期日邮报》采访时表示，“再分配主义、商业不景气、“反抗灭绝”和“停止石油”等反增长人士”等观念在过去十年中主导了政治。
她对持续的低增长提出警告，并认为西方文化“正在受到质疑，甚至包括人类生物学等基本知识”。
莉兹·特拉斯在唐宁街 10 号外发表讲话
“她完全迷失了”：利兹·特拉斯首相任期瓦解的内幕
“如果你看看西方政治中人们在关于有阴茎的人是否是男人的问题上所纠结的问题，就会发现这些人不幸的是多么有效，”她告诉该报。
她说，税收太高，政府规模太大，花钱太多，“如果每一英镑的支出有一半是政府花的，我们就不会拥有充满活力的经济。”
她还透露，她认为鲍里斯·约翰逊永远不应该被免职。 “这从根本上来说是错误的做法，”她告诉该报。 “他被选民选举为国家领导人，我认为这给我们带来了巨大的问题。”
她渴望看到一位共和党人重返白宫，尽管她不愿评论是否应该是唐纳德·特朗普：“毫无疑问，在我看来，拜登正在做的事情正在通过追求巨额补贴来损害美国经济， 巨额支出，提高税收，现在试图通过经合组织最低税收协议将其强加于世界其他地区。
“拜登仅仅在美国推行社会主义经济政策是不够的，他还想将社会主义经济政策输出到欧洲和英国。”
她补充道：“拜登显然是全球左派的重要组成部分，还有全球环境运动、这个世界的格蕾塔·桑伯格、反资本主义运动，他们非常有效地推动了 政治上可以接受。”
特拉斯还害怕凯尔·斯塔默和乔·拜登的双重表演：“那会非常糟糕。”
她并不排除自己东山再起的可能性，并表示在看到英国真正发生变化之前她不会休息。 “我认为这是可以实现的，但我并没有为自己指定未来的任何角色。”
当被问及她是否认为自己导致了自己在办公室的垮台时，她回答说：“我之前说过，我在沟通和执行等方面犯了错误，但根本问题是保守党的想法没有得到足够的支持。” ”。
特拉斯与她的前总理、强大盟友夸西·夸腾的密切政治联系似乎已经结束。 特拉斯在其首相任期的最后几天解雇了他，因为他们的 450 亿英镑无资金减税预算引发了经济危机并导致抵押贷款利率飙升。 当被问及两人是否通过短信联系时，她回答说：“偶尔。 我不会和他说那么多。”
在采访中，她承认她仍然难以“计算”在 10 号任职期间发生的事情，特别是关于“女王身上发生的事情”：“这是非同寻常的，而且也是在担任外交大臣和英国首相期间发生的事情。” 欧洲土地上的第一场战争于当年早些时候打响，因此 2022 年就像过山车一样，非同寻常。”
她的办公室表示，她将自己写这本书，而不是聘请代笔人。 将于四月出版。
Liz Truss to 'share lessons' of her time in government in new book
The former PM blames lack of support for Conservative ideas as part of her downfall during her 49-day premiership
Liz Truss is writing a book about her 49 days as prime minister, which will argue the main cause of her downfall was a lack of “support for Conservative ideas” – and too much support for the “global left”.
The former prime minister wants to see a “Conservative movement revival” and has decided to “share the lessons” from her time in government, where she was “often the only conservative in the room”.
The book, Ten Years to Save the West, is being touted as warning against authoritarianism and the threat from “fashionable ideas propagated by the global left” – the same movement she blames for derailing her premiership.
The former foreign secretary, who is now a backbench Conservative MP, will write about her meeting with the Queen shortly before the monarch’s death and her experiences with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping.
In a statement, Truss said: “I want to share the lessons from my experience in government and those international meetings where I was often the only conservative in the room and demonstrate that we have stark choices to make if we wish to avoid a managed decline of the western architecture that has presided over generations of relative peace and prosperity.”
In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, she said that ideas like “redistributionism, business being bad, the anti-growth people like Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil” have dominated politics over the last decade.
She warned of persistent low growth and argued that western culture is “being questioned, even basic things like human biology”.
“If you look at the knots in which people tie themselves in western politics about whether somebody with a penis is a man or not, it shows how effective unfortunately these people have been,” she told the newspaper.
Taxes are too high and the government is too big and spends too much money, she said: “We are not going to get a dynamic economy if half of every pound spent is being spent by the government.”
She also revealed that she thinks Boris Johnson should never have been removed of office. “That was fundamentally the wrong thing to do,” she told the paper. “He’d been elected leader of the country by the electorate and I think that’s caused us huge problems.”
She is keen to see a Republican back in the White House, although she would not comment on whether it should be Donald Trump: “There is no doubt in my mind that what Biden is doing is damaging the United States economy by pursuing huge subsidies, huge spending, raising taxes and now trying to impose this on the rest of the world through the OECD minimum tax agreement.
“It’s not good enough for Biden just to have a socialist economic policy in the US, he also wants to export that socialist economic policy to Europe and to the United Kingdom.”
She added: “You’ve got the global left which Biden is obviously a key part of, but also the global environmental movement, the Greta Thunbergs of this world, the anti-capitalist movement, and they have been very effective in pushing what is politically acceptable.”
Truss also dreads a Keir Starmer-Joe Biden double act: “That would be very bad.”
She didn’t rule herself out for a comeback, saying that she would not rest until she sees real change in Britain. “I think that can be delivered but I’m not specifying any role for myself in the future.”
When asked whether or not she believed she contributed to her own downfall in office, she replied: “I’ve said before that I made mistakes on things like communication and execution, but the fundamental problem was there wasn’t enough support for Conservative ideas.”
Truss’s close political bond with her former chancellor and strong ally, Kwasi Kwarteng, appears to be over. Truss fired him in the final days of her premiership after their budget of £45bn of unfunded tax cuts sparked an economic crisis and sent mortgage rates soaring. Asked whether the pair are in contact by text, she replied: “Occasionally. I’m not speaking to him that much.”
In the interview, she admitted that she still struggles to “compute” what happened during her time in No 10 – particularly concerning “what happened to the Queen”: “It was extraordinary and it also came off the back of being foreign secretary with the first war on European soil kicking off earlier that year, so 2022 was an extraordinary rollercoaster, extraordinary.”
Her office said she will be writing the book herself, rather than using a ghostwriter. It will be published in April.
