Liz Truss
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Yes, you can do it.
But what I know from my experience is those people will have to walk through fire because they'll be accused of abolishing democracy, abolishing independence of our institutions, undermining the rule of law.
You know, everything will be thrown at people who try and do that.
But it is exactly the same thing that's happened is the prime minister, who was able to exercise that power with the backup of a parliamentary majority, is no longer able to do it until we overturn all of those laws and also until we replace the people who are head of those institutions.
One of the most important things you said, Steve, was about the power to hire and fire.
Currently, the British prime minister does not have
the power to hire and fire the people that run the key government departments.
The Treasury, the Bank of England, the Home Office doesn't have that power.
The prime minister needs to take that power back.
And we started losing that power in 1854.
So it's going to be a long, a long fight back.
Well, he certainly is talking about mass migration and Britain's economic decline.
I don't think he has gone as far as what I've just said needs to happen in terms of replacing the senior levels of the bureaucracy and repealing all of the laws that have been passed essentially since Tony Blair was in power, particularly.
But also some of them were passed in the 1980s that started limiting free speech.
So we need a huge overhaul.
And there's still a debate going on in Britain.
The next election is not likely to be until 2029 about exactly how far we need to go.
Because I've been there.
I know how deep the problem is.
And what I'm saying to Nigel and anybody else who may become the next British prime minister, unless you get rid of these laws, unless you restore executive power in Britain, nothing will change.