Footage of Liz Truss calling for Royal Family to be abolished resurfaces on day she will meet Queen
dailyrecord.co.ukA video of a young Liz Truss calling for the monarchy to be abolished has resurfaced on the day she is due to be appointed Prime Minister by the Queen.
A 19-year-old Truss was filmed speaking at the Liberal Democrat conference in 1994 where she supported a motion calling for the UK to become a republic.
In the clip, she said: "I was being interviewed by Newsnight earlier this afternoon and we were filmed asking members of the public what they thought about the monarchy."We came across a group of three people, I would say they were around 50 or 60 looked fairly middle class, rather smart, in fact rather reactionary to be frank."We asked them their opinion of the monarchy, do you know what they said?
They said 'abolish them, we've had enough'. We couldn't find a single monarchist outside the Royal Pavilion. How ironic.""We believe in fairness and common sense.
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