Liz Truss, the shortest-serving prime minister in British history, refuses to go away quietly. Her latest barnstorming idea is to launch her very own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform to counter the mainstream media and protect free speech in Britain. Truss told a cryptocurrency conference, held in Bedford, that the platform would launch this summer. Honestly, who wants this? As pointless new ventures go, it must be right up there.
The idea of a Truss social media network was first mooted at the Conservative Political Action Conference (Cpac) in Washington. At the event in February, she pledged that the platform would be ‘uncensorable’ and ‘uncancellable’.
Truss appears to have learnt nothing from her failure
All this free speech blather is a tad rich coming from someone as thin-skinned as Truss. Only last summer, she stormed off the stage at a public event after a banner showing a picture of a lettuce and the words ‘I crashed the economy’ was unfurled behind her. Will
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