Former Prime Minister Liz Truss has commended GB News while launching a scathing attack on Britain's mainstream media outlets, which she claims have spread falsehoods about her time in office and failed to report crucial stories truthfully.
Speaking to GB News presenter Ben Leo, the ex-PM suggested that traditional news organisations had created what she called a "truth-free zone" in their coverage of major issues.
"Britain's mainstream media has been a truth-free zone," Mrs Truss stated during the interview.
Ben said: "At GB News we are trying to do something about that."
Mrs Truss spoke exclusively to GB News from Washington
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The former Prime Minister said: "I know that you are. Look at how grooming gangs were reported.
"Look at what happened with me and the Bank of England. The Bank of England admitted that two-thirds of the market movement in 2022 was down to their failure to regulate pension funds, but it received virtually no coverage in the mainstream media.
"Instead, there were lots of smears on me, suggesting everything was my fault which simply isn’t true.
"How can the country’s problems be addressed if people aren’t prepared to tell the truth?"
During her time as Prime Minister, Mrs Truss revealed she faced internal opposition that went beyond normal political disagreement.
She described experiencing deliberate undermining from within the Government machinery itself, including the disclosure of confidential discussions and active obstruction of her policy agenda.
"What I discovered in No10 was that people were prepared to smear me, lie about what I was doing, leak internal government discussions, and actively sabotage the policies I was trying to implement," she told GB News.
She emphasised that these actions were particularly troubling as those responsible were civil servants receiving public sector salaries.
The former PM characterised these experiences as a betrayal of democratic principles, with taxpayer-funded officials working against the elected government's programme.
Having entered government in 2012 with hopes of achieving change through reasoned debate and gradual progress, she has abandoned this approach in favour of more radical solutions.
Liz Truss praised Britain's News Channel stating that 'she knows' it is trying to make a difference
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"This isn't even reform, it's revolution," she declared to Britain's News Channel.
Her experiences in Downing Street convinced her that fundamental transformation requires removing those who obstruct democratic governance.
"That's why I now believe that senior officials need to be replaced. You can't reform them," Truss concluded, advocating for wholesale changes to the civil service leadership.
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