Liz Truss warns 'woke' attacks on Britain's history will help the UK's enemies

Liz Truss today called for an end to culture wars and 'woke' attacks on the UK's history as she warns internal rows only help Britain's enemies.

The Foreign Secretary will delivered a major speech at Chatham House in which she will urged people to 'wake up'.

She said in a question to British colonialism following the speech, “Of course egregious things have happened in Britain in the past, I’m not saying it hasn’t. But I don’t think there is a culture you can point to that has a perfect history of modern liberalism”

“But where we are now is that we are a great country, we are a free country, everybody in Britain has the opportunity to succeed and we’ve got to be proud of that. So let’s stop fighting about the past let’s start fighting for the future”

She said disputes over Britain's history and culture work to the advantage of hostile states like China and Russia.

Ms Truss urged people to be 'proud of who we are and what we stand for'.

Liz Truss also insisted “we do follow the rules on Covid” after she was questioned about the alleged Downing Street Christmas party.

She told an event at the Chatham House think tank: “As to alleged events in Number 10, I don’t know the detail of what happened.

“I know that the Prime Minister’s spokesman answered those questions in detail yesterday and I am sure there will be further discussion of that issue.”