Tory leader hopeful Liz Truss has admitted that her controversial call for the monarchy to be abolished was ‘a mistake’. Resurfaced footage from the 1994 LibDem conference shows the then 19-year-old campaigning for the removal of the Royal Family.
Resurfaced footage from the 1994 Liberal Democrat conference shows the then 19-year-old campaigning for the removal of the‘We do not believe people are born to rule,’ Ms Truss said in the clip – two years before abandoning ship and joining theHer impassionate remarks were met with applause by attendees but she has now insisted that she regretted them ‘almost immediately’.
Questioned on when she realised she did not want to scrap the monarchy, Ms Truss told reporters in Peterborough: ‘Almost immediately after I’d made that speech.
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