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The people who actually run Britain were chosen by former Prime Minister Liz Truss, and they are not elected politicians. He said left-wing “incompetent technocrats” had ruled Britain for 30 years while the government elected by voters had little real power.
He said the real masters included Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, London police chief Sir Mark Rowley and Treasury officials. Home Office lawyers set immigration policy, Ms. Truss said, while a body called the Committee on Climate Change, made up largely of academics, helps set energy policies.
Speaking to the Daily Expresso news programme, the former Prime Minister said: “People think that the Prime Minister or the Chancellor is so powerful that they can come into government and just pull the levers and anything will happen.
“But actually the government is controlled by the permanent bureaucracy and the civil service. They are the ones who hire and fire people who work in the government. They control the budget of every government department, they make the decisions about how every policy is implemented.”
“The Governor of the Bank of England can make decisions about the economy, independently of the elected government, that have huge impacts on people’s lives,” he said.
“Many powers that were formerly in the hands of the elected are now in the hands of the unelected.”
He said change began after former Labor Prime Minister Tony Blair came to power almost 30 years ago. “Blair was the last Prime Minister to lead this country.”
But Ms Truss said Britain’s rulers were “not impartial experts”. “They are people with an agenda who have a huge amount of unelected power.”
The former Prime Minister said: “They believe in net zero, they believe in mass immigration.
“They believe in Keynsian economics: high taxes and high spending.”
“They have a worldview. They are not neutral technocrats.”
He added: “The left has been very successful and now almost every institution has been taken over.”
This meant voters were “incredibly frustrated” as their views were ignored.
Ms Truss told host JJ Anisiobi: “They keep voting for governments that will restrict immigration, cut taxes, but the governments won’t deliver.”
He said the Conservative Party was part of the problem because it had accepted the “Blairite” agenda set by Labor since David Cameron became leader of the Conservative Party in 2005.
And Ms Truss warned the Conservative Party could be finished if they continued on their current path, but said many MPs were against change.
Asked what she thought of Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, Ms Truss said: “I would be interested if she started tackling these sorts of issues. But there are too many people in the Conservative Party at the moment, so-called modernisers… until she rejects that agenda I don’t think the Conservative Party has much of a future.”
