SECRET Tories were summoned to the fight against “Davos man” and the global left at today’s launch of the Popular Conservatives movement.
The new group is fronted by ex-premier Liz Truss, who used her speech to rail against “wokery,” obstructive institutions, left-wing “extremists” and environmentalists.
Running through a list of enemies almost longer than her catastrophic time in Downing Street, Ms Truss nevertheless claimed that Britain was “full of secret Conservatives — people who agree with us but don’t want to admit it,” while the Tory party had been appeasing “left-wing extremists.”
Painting a picture of a world on the edge of socialism, the former prime minister, best known for crashing the economy in a matter of days, asserted that “the left have been on the march.”
“They have been on the march in our institutions, they have been on the march in our corporate world, they are on the march globally,” she claimed.
Taking on this menace and “changing the system itself” will require “resilience and bravery,” Ms Truss added.
Unfortunately, rather than resilience and bravery, she had to hand only Lee Anderson and Jacob Rees-Mogg, former frontbenchers taking a break from their present gigs on GB News.
This plebeian-patrician duo divided up the targets between them. Mr Anderson lambasted green politics, identifying it with “a load of rich people … flying into an exotic country in private jets to tell poor people they have got to pay for the mistakes they have made.”
And the languorous Mr Rees-Mogg slammed the global elite, telling the PopCons that “electors across the world have realised that the age of ‘Davos Man’ is over, of international cabals and quangos telling hundreds of millions of people how to lead their lives.”
He too ran through a miscellany of evils, including collectivism, internationalism, “faceless bureaucrats” and “pompous politicians.” The answer? “Popular conservatism,” of course.
The new organisation’s director, Mark Littlewood, implausibly claimed that “this isn’t about the leadership of the Conservative Party” but instead “exciting” the public with a conservative vision.
Among the excited attendees were former home secretary Priti Patel and king of British populism Nigel Farage, a pair last seen dancing together at the Tory Party conference.
Neither excited nor attending was unpopular Conservative Kwasi Kwarteng.
Ms Truss’s calamity chancellor announced today that he is to quit politics at the next election, leaving the smoking ruins of the economy and his reputation behind him.
