Liz Truss has claimed she was “too busy” to back Brexit as she backs Donald Trump to win November’s US presidential election.
It comes as Ms Truss, Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, said the “world was safer” under Trump’s presidency as she criticised incumbent Joe Biden.
The former PM, who was in office for 49 days, suggested she may have backed Vote Leave if she had “time for more existential thinking”.
Ms Truss said wanting to leave the EU was “considered quite a far out, fringe position”.
But she added: “Had I spend more of my time thinking about it during those years, I might have come to share that view… but I had been busy as a minister, knee-deep in floods and other distractions”.
Ms Truss also launched into a scathing attack on President Joe Biden saying it “has to be” Donald Trump to win.
“I don’t think (President Joe) Biden has been particularly supportive to the United Kingdom. I think he’s often on the side of the EU. And I certainly think I would like to see a new president in the White House,” she told LBC.
