The New York Times has published an opinion piece that compared Liz Truss to notorious Tory MP of the 1970s, Enoch Powell.
Mr Powell, who was the MP for Wolverhampton South West for 24 years, is infamous for his ‘rivers of blood’ tirade, in which he said immigration would lead to ‘the black man [having] the whip hand over the white man’.
He said Ms Truss’s promise to increase the country’s border force by 20% and her support of the Government’sBut the biggest comparison Mr Koram drew was over the two politicians’ views on how to run Britain’s finances, specifically their shared belief in the ‘miraculous power of tax cuts’.Ms Truss has maintained a ‘hard-line position’ on immigration
But, in an effort to stay consistent to the ideals she lobbied on, she has refused to bring a further windfall tax on energy firms’ soaring profits. He argued the pair ‘reared on British power’ and have both been ‘in thrall to the legacy of the British empire’.
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