Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss Backs Republican Victory In 2024 Presidential Election

Liz Truss, former UK prime minister, back a Republican return to the White House. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss endorsed a Republican Party victory in the 2024 US presidential election, writing that “there must be conservative leadership in America once again.”

In comments made during a visit to Washington, D.C., accompanied by a delegation of MPs from the Conservative Friends of Ukraine group, Truss highlighted the need to challenge hostile regimes.

Writing for the Wall Street Journal she said: “For as long as most of us can recall, the US has led the free world. During the Cold War, for example, it was American power that successfully held off the communist threat from the Soviet Union. Working in tandem with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, President Ronald Reagan was unflinching, calling the Soviet Union an ‘evil empire.'”

“The world would benefit from more of that kind of American leadership today. I hope that a Republican will be returned to the White House in 2024. There must be conservative leadership in the U.S. that is once again bold enough to call out hostile regimes as evil and a threat.”

The endorsement comes as the race for the White House in 2024 intensifies, with prospects pointing towards a repeat of the 2020 contest between Trump and current President Joe Biden. Truss’ backing of Trump comes as he leads the Republican primary contest with a significant majority. While the former prime minister does not endorse Trump specifically, she does not seem opposed to his return to the Oval Office, having praised him in the past as “very good” and “very nice.”

Truss is best known for having the shortest-serving Prime Minister in UK history, lasting just 49 days in late 2022. She fell out of favour rapidly with her Conservative peers and the British public after a calamitous “mini budget” on September 23 that alarmed financial markets, caused borrowing rates to spike, and led to a significant devaluation of the British pound. It’s estimated that UK stock and bond markets lost an estimated $500 billion in value during her time in charge.

In response to the crisis, she dismissed her Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng, appointing Jeremy Hunt as his successor. However, these measures proved insufficient to salvage her political career.

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