(Middle East Eye) Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss has claimed the Labour Party is influenced by “Islamism,” suggesting it is linked to a purported failure to tackle “grooming gangs.”
She further accused Muslim independent MPs of being “Islamist MPs” and suggested Islamism was connected to “climate change extremism.”
Truss, who was prime minister for under two months in 2022 and lost her seat in parliament in July 2024, made the comments in an interview on The Peter McCormack Show released on Friday.
The video racked up nearly 300,000 views in three days.
“We know that there is an ideology of Islamism which has become more powerful in British politics,” she said, in reference to the so-called grooming gangs scandal that has swamped the political discussion in the past week.
