Just 24 hours after taking over as British Prime Minister Liz Truss he became the protagonist of the first scandal of his administration. The television of that country revealed an interview in which she had described the monarchy of that country as “shameful” and in which she presented herself as a militant of a liberal political force, contrary to the one that took her to the position she occupies just a day ago.
“Am against the idea that people can be born to rule; that people, due to the family they are born into, can be the head of state of our country. I think that’s embarrassingTruss said in 1994, when asked by ITV News for her opinion on the monarchy.
The images and statements were released minutes after Truss met with Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Palace, Scotland, and kiss her hand before being anointed as the third prime minister in the history of that country, after Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May, both conservatives.
In the year in which the interview that sparked the public controversy was conducted, Truss was 19 years old and the consultation had been made because of a campaign in which she promoted the elimination of the monarchy in the United Kingdom.
His statements at that time not only sparked controversy because of the opinion he had in those days and could have now about the Crown, but also because he said it as a militant of the Liberal Democratic Party from Brighton. That is to say, a political force opposed to the Conservative Party of which she is now the head and that catapulted her to 10 Downing Street as the successor of Boris Johnson.
“We Liberal Democrats believe in opportunity for all, we believe in fairness and common sense”said 28 years ago the then adolescent Liz, when giving her foundations against the monarchy.
With the years, Truss stopped thinking like that, changed sides and it became a political force with an ideology diametrically opposed to the liberal one, which made it the maximum referent of the British status quo.
A review of the archives also found Liz Truss repentant for her anti-monarchist stance. When she returned to see and hear what she said at the age of 19 years later, she made a singular reflection: “I was a teenager at the time and I think people who never change their minds about anything and think the same thing at 16 as they do at 46 are, well, first of all, they are not normal people like me“.