“The administrative state undermined Mr. Trump’s first term and undermined my tenure as Britain’s prime minister, forcing me out of office after 49 days,” she writes in the Wall Street Journal.
“I assumed that I would be able to drive through the agenda on which I was elected. How wrong I was. The opaque British bureaucratic state undermined my proposed reforms, and their American equivalents will have Mr. Trump in their sights if he is victorious in November. The deep state will attempt to undercut him even more than it did in his first term.”
Truss was ousted from office by her own party after her mini-budget caused economic turmoil and sent markets into a spin. In her book, Truss argues the U.K.’s Treasury, the Bank of England and its Office for Budget Responsibility engaged in a “sustained whispering campaign” against her tax-cutting policies.
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Against that backdrop, she warns, Conservatives need “a concerted plan to dismantle the deep state, which seeks its own self-preservation.”
It’s not the first time Truss has flirted with U.S. style populism. In February, Truss spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington where she derided “conservatives in name only” and called for Republicans “who aren’t going to cave into the establishment.”
The former prime minister also raised eyebrows in the U.K. when she appeared alongside ex- White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon. She rowed in behind Trump’s return to power Monday, saying he “has to” win and arguing the “world was safer” when he was in charge.
Truss jets off to the U.S. to promote the stateside edition of her book later this week. That tour includes a speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank on April 22.
