Liz Truss' journey from 'Remainer' to 'Brexiteer' in her own words

The newly chosen UK prime minister, Liz Truss, is a fervent supporter of Brexit. 

In her earlier roles, on the Treasury and as commerce and overseas secretary, she has passionately promoted the UK's "alternatives" outdoors the EU.

Nonetheless, she was as soon as an enthusiastic backer of the UK's EU membership. She voted "Stay" within the 2016 referendum having spoken out specifically of the necessity to stay within the EU's single market.

Beneath is a abstract of Truss' Brexit transformation — in her personal phrases:

  • "I'm backing stay as I imagine it's in Britain's financial curiosity and means we are able to deal with important financial and social reform at house." — February 20, 2016, on Twitter, referring to the upcoming UK referendum on EU membership.

  • I imagine that farmers are higher off remaining in a reformed EU. The overwhelming majority of our exports are to the EU — for instance, 97% of lamb exports and 92% of beef exports. As a part of the one market, we don't face the tariffs and limitations that we face in making an attempt to export to different nations. That's important for the well being of our farming trade." — as Setting Secretary, Home of Commons, March 17, 2016.

  • "What I might say, on behalf of all farmers, is that the EU and the one market have caused huge advantages for meals and farming... There could be an actual danger to the longer term livelihood of these industries if we had been to depart and weren't in a position to export our advantageous merchandise to these European nations any extra." — Home of Commons, Could 5, 2016.

  • "That European market is so valuable, as a result of we share the identical rules, we share the identical guidelines over issues like meals security, over animal well being and welfare... If we had been to depart that EU single market... these (UK) merchandise would face extra prices in getting them into these markets, and it could imply in some circumstances that we may see markets shut... I believe we have to be very cautious about taking that single market without any consideration, and being outdoors that single market... it's actually essential to the quantity of development we have seen in foods and drinks exports over the previous 40 years... The rationale lots of these buyers wish to spend money on the UK market is as a result of we've entry to 500 million (EU) customers... The 'out' marketing campaign has been very clear, they've mentioned they do not wish to be a part of the one market, I believe that is an actual fear for funding... It is in all of our pursuits to speak the actual influence on the bottom, the actual influence this is able to have on jobs, on livelihoods, as a result of what we all know is that much less commerce would imply fewer investments, fewer jobs, and that may feed by means of to individuals's incomes... that impacts all of us within the general economic system." — handle to the Meals and Drink Business annual dinner as Setting Secretary, Could 19, 2016. (The UK left the EU's single market on the finish of 2020).

  • "(The) Go away (marketing campaign) can't title one nation we'd get a greater commerce cope with if we left the EU." — Twitter, June 21, 2016.

  • "We are saying it is all Europe that is inflicting all these (British staff') issues... it is migrants that is inflicting these issues however really, what must occur is, , a bit extra... a bit extra graft (she laughs). It isn't a well-liked message." — leaked recording from 2017-2019 when Truss was Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
  • "I made a judgement considering that it (Brexit) could be unhealthy for the economic system. Since we have left* it has been extra constructive, so the info have modified and I've modified my thoughts... I believed there could be main financial issues, these have not come to go, and I've additionally seen the alternatives. And I believe the opposite factor is that it was an enormous second on June twenty third (2016) when British individuals voted to depart, and it was an expression about what sort of nation we needed to be, and I believe that has modified the controversy on this nation as properly." — BBC Day by day Politics, October 11, 2017.

*The UK had not left the EU at this stage and buying and selling guidelines had not modified.

The UK left the EU on January 31, 2020 and its single market and customs union when the Brexit transition interval expired on December 31, 2020.

  • "Taking again management of our commerce coverage means the British persons are again within the driving seat... As a newly unbiased buying and selling nation, unparalleled alternatives lie forward of us. Our economic system can transfer into high gear after many years within the sluggish lane, caught behind the EU’s excessive tariff wall... We will help innovation flourish greater than below the innovation-phobic EU’s watch." — speech to Chatham Home as Worldwide Commerce Secretary, October 29, 2020.
  • "After nearly 50 years within the EU, as soon as once more all of the levers of worldwide coverage are in our fingers — diplomacy, growth, commerce and safety." — first speech as Overseas Secretary, December 8, 2021.
  • "Alongside the US, G7, EU and different companions, the UK is taking decisive steps to squeeze the Putin regime." — Twitter, March 1, 2022.
  • "The NI (Northern Eire) Protocol is undermining the Belfast (Good Friday) Settlement. The EU are unwilling to alter the Protocol, due to this fact we should act." — Twitter, June 26, 2022.
  • "Within the face of EU intransigence, I developed the Northern Eire Protocol invoice... This breaks the impasse in a authorized approach, upholding the Belfast (Good Friday) Settlement and stopping the tearing aside of our valuable Union." — "Liz for chief" marketing campaign launch speech, July 14, 2022.
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Liz Truss as Setting Secretary alongside then finance minister George Osborne, Bristol, April 18, 2016, warning of the associated fee to UK households if the UK left the EU.AFP
  • "EU rules hinder our companies and this has to alter... In Downing Avenue, I'll seize the prospect to diverge from outdated EU legislation and frameworks and capitalise on the alternatives we've forward of us." — assertion on pledge to ditch all EU legal guidelines by 2023, July 22, 2022.
  • "We are going to develop into better nonetheless by seizing our newfound freedoms outdoors the EU." — Twitter, July 25, 2022.
  • "As Prime Minister I'll take away onerous EU rules and crimson tape to again our British farmers." — Twitter, August 1, 2022.
  • "The EU is in clear breach of our settlement, repeatedly searching for to politicise important scientific cooperation by refusing to finalise entry to those essential programmes. We can't enable this to proceed." — authorities assertion on UK formal attraction in opposition to exclusion from EU science programmes, August 16, 2022.

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