Liz Truss urges conservatives to ‘defund state media’ as she rails against left at Australian CPAC event

Former British prime minister also criticises the Bank of England and bureaucrats in speech at rightwing conference in Brisbane

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Liz Truss, the former British prime minister, has claimed the left is winning the argument" and called for the defunding of public broadcasters to help win it back during a speech at the Australian Conservative Political Action Conference.

About 1,000 people at the CPAC conference in Brisbane also heard the former Conservative party leader blame the unelected Bank of England" for a financial crisis which contributed to her departure as prime minister after just 49 days, following her disastrous mini-budget.

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