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EXCLUSIVE: Liz Truss went 5,000 miles to badmouth Britain in US - inside plan become Britain's Donald Trump

Kemi Badenoch faced calls to expel Liz Truss from the Tory Party after she painted a picture of the UK as an authoritarian wasteland, "invaded" by Islamists and "globalists" to MAGA fans at the pro-Trump CPAC conference in Texas

Liz Truss travelled 5,000 miles to badmouth Britain in America in a bid to set herself up as England's answer to Donald Trump.

Kemi Badenoch faced calls to expel Ms Truss from the Conservative Party after the failed ex-PM painted a picture of the UK as an authoritarian wasteland, "invaded" by Islamists and "globalists" to MAGA fans at the pro-Trump CPAC conference in Grapevine, Texas.

She said she wanted to launch a "MAGA movement" in the UK - branding it "MEGA - Make England Great again".

The Mirror challenged Ms Truss in the corridors of the conference, asking if she planned to lead the movement herself, and whether she wanted to be seen as a British Donald Trump - but remained tight-lipped, smiling and walking away.

Liz Truss has clearly been reading Nigel Farage's playbook - flying 5,000 miles just to badmouth our country," Daisy Cooper, Deputy leader of the Lib Dems said.

"All while planning to import the most toxic elements of US politics to the UK."

She added: The public hasn't forgotten the economic carnage Liz Truss caused at home. They won't take lessons on 'Making England Great Again' from the woman who nearly broke it.

Kemi Badenoch must step up and immediately expel Liz Truss from the Conservative Party for championing populist division.

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Liz Truss is listed as a director and shareholder of CPAC London Ltd(Image: Ian Vogler / Daily Mirror)

Ms Truss also announced she planned to host the first CPAC conference in London in July.

Today it can be revealed Ms Truss is named as a director of CPAC London Ltd, a UK registered company set up on March 6th.

Until this year, CPAC USA has hosted speeches by Donald Trump every year for a decade. He skipped this year, amid speculation he risked facing down a backlash from his supporters over the Iran war.

Instead the conference has seen a line-up of second-tier Trump administration members, including Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, ICE Chief Tom Homan and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Meanwhile, attendees told the Mirror they believed stories spouted by the ex-PM and President Trump about the UK. Benjamin Hansel, of the College Republicans of America, said it was "eye-opening to hear about the Islamification all over in the UK."

Asked what other politicians in the UK he had heard of, and was interested in, he named far-right agitator Tommy Robinson. Other attendees named Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe as the most prominent names.

Martina from Silver Spring, Maryland, said she saw Liz Truss speak, and that it sounds like Britain has "allowed itself to be overrun by Muslims. I said London has gone, and my co-worker said England has gone to Sharia Law."

Deborah Thorne, from Frisco, Texas said she wasn't surprised Donald Trump wasn't at CPAC this year, because he's "a busy man."

Trump found time to give a speech to Saudi bankers at an investment summit in Florida on Friday afternoon. Asked if she was bothered that he was too busy to talk to his grassroots, but not to bankers, she said: "That's what he does, he's making deals all the time. I don't think he needs to be at CPAC. We do love Trump."

She said she was happy about the Iran War: "I'm so happy we're helping them get their country back."

Asked if she'd seen Liz Truss, she initially said no, but was reminded by a friend that sh had indeed heard the ex-PM speak the previous day.

A former resident of London, she said: "I'm pretty disappointed in the hierarchy, the Royal Family...I have nothing against the British people, I love the British people, but I think you're being overtaken, not run. I feel very bad for Britain."

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Deborah Thorne, right, believes Islam has overrun Britain(Image: Ian Vogler / Daily Mirror)

Asked why, she said: "Islam. You're being overrun by what is known as Sharia Law. They slowly took over and they're taking over all your government."

Attendance at the conference was bolstered by a huge contingent of Iranian Americans - mostly supporters of the restoration of the country's monarchy.

Iran's Crown Prince in exile Reza Pahlavi gave a speech from the main stage of the conference yesterday, which saw by far the highest attendance of any speaker.

Ms Truss took aim at "globalist elites", Tony Blair and former Conservative Party colleagues, saying the party she led had "lost its way".

"We need a counterrevolution to overthrow the globalist regime that are now in power," she said.

What I learned from 10 years a s govt minister trying to do things was that all the power had been handed away, handed away to unelected agencies, handed away to the climate change committee.

We did not have as Conservatives, the movement, the infrastructure, the media, the independent media to take that on.

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T-shirts on sale at CPAC in Grapevine, Texas(Image: Ian Vogler / Daily Mirror)

What I'm now working on is how do we build the infrastructure. How do we build the equivalent of a a MAGA movement - a MEGA movement. Make England Great Again.

"How do we build the independent media to take on the "blob" media like the BBC. Because I know we will not get change in our country just by changing who is in No10 Downing Street. We have to change the system."

Announcing the inaugural CPAC Great Britain, she said she wanted to harness the "energy of the Conservative movement internationally.

And she said: "We want to wake up the people of Britain, who have been asleep while out country has been taken over.

Most people in Britain want to have a good job, they're proud of their country, they want it to be a Christian country. They don't want all this woke claptrap. And what we need to do is bring all those people together and create the momentum for real change."

On Thursday, speaking on a main stage panel entitled "Europestan: Can Europe Survive?", Ms Truss claimed "elites" in the UK "fundamentally don't like western civilisation, and they want to destroy it."

Slipping into wild, far-right conspiracy theories, she claimed a "globalist movement" had "captured the institutions, the universities, the mainstream media, the the corporate sector and the bureacracy."

"They believe in open borders," she said. "They believe in human rights - by which I mean the human rights of illegal migrants - they believe in things like transgender ideology, they don't believe in the family.

"The right, and in that I include the Conservative Party in which I served as a minister and prime minister, we did not do enough to take them on."

She continued: "We went along with the status quo - things like net zero which means we have the most expensive energy in the world, we didn't reverse the changes to our constitution, we've allowed DEI to be embedded. We've allowed Islamism to grow in our country and that is the fundamental problem."

She said she had called for a "Trump-style revolution" in Britain, "because most people in our country don't believe in this stuff.

"They want to have a family, they want a nice car, they want to go on a nice holiday,they want to live in a christian country," she said.

"They don't want their country taken over."

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