Liz Truss insists she is ‘Britain’s number one fighter against the blob’ when challenged on gender policies

Liz Truss has declared she is “Britain's number one fighter against the blob” after being challenged over her previous support for gender policies while serving as a Conservative minister.

Speaking to GB News at CPAC UK, the former Prime Minister was questioned by Charlie Peters over her backing of issues such as allowing biological men who identify as women to use female-only facilities.

Since the collapse of her short premiership, Ms Truss has blamed a network of institutions and unelected officials for frustrating her government’s agenda and that of others – known as the blob.

However, Charlie was keen to address the former Prime Minister's support for gender-politics policies that would have put her in concert with the network's ideological direction.

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“As you were speaking about the blob that's generated in Britain, you can see that you did play a role in expanding that blob when you were a minister under the Conservatives,” he began.

“You described yourself as an LGBT+ ally. You'd also told the Equality and Human Rights Commission that the Government did not intend to prevent biological men from identifying as women and using female-only facilities.

“Are you not an example of someone who used to promote the blob?"

Ms Truss rejected the suggestion, arguing that her record as Equalities Minister showed she had pushed back against gender self-identification proposals.

“If you remember, I was actually the Equalities Minister who stopped self-ID,” she said.

“This was a policy that Theresa May had introduced that would have meant that men could say they were women with no checks and balances, no medical records. And I stopped that.”

The former Prime Minister said she faced significant criticism at the time for opposing the reforms.

“In the House of Commons, I was attacked by everybody from Stonewall to PinkNews because it was a controversial view,” she said.

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“But I'm the person who stopped that Act, which I think would have been a disaster.”

The former Prime Minister pointed to events in Scotland, where issues like gender self-identification and men identifying as women being sent to female prisons caused national outrage.

“I'm proud to be the minister who stopped it,” she insisted.

Ms Truss went on to argue that no Conservative politician had done more to challenge Britain's institutional establishment.

“I think of all the people in the Conservative Party, I'm the one who took on the blob most," she said.

“In fact, when I was Prime Minister, I tried to change things, and the Bank of England deliberately sabotaged my plans.

“So I consider myself Britain's number one fighter against the blob.”

The comments came after Ms Truss used her speech at CPAC UK to argue that unelected institutions, including the civil service, judiciary and Bank of England, wield too much influence and have frustrated attempts to deliver Conservative policies.

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