Tory leadership candidate Liz Truss went viral after a passionate but slightly bizarre speech about British food production and exports at the Conservative Party conference in 2014.
She was ridiculed after appearing outraged that British people didn’t eat enough British cheese: "I want to see us eating more British food here in Britain.”
Truss, then Secretary for the Environment, said: "In December I'll be in Beijing, opening up new pork markets!"
"At the moment, we import two-thirds of all of our apples, we import nine-tenths of all of our pears, we import two-thirds of our cheese.
"That. Is. A. Disgrace."
She finished her speech saying: “I will not rest until the British apple is back at the top of the tree”
Liz Truss will face Rishi Sunak for the Tory leadership crown as the pair battle it out for the votes of party members.
There was no love lost between Truss and Sunak in the two early TV debates, so much so that other appearances were cancelled to avoid the “blue on blue” bloodshed that is already being fired back at the Tories by Labour.
Her strengths and weaknesses will be on show over the next six weeks to Tory members and the public but right now she is the favourite to replace Boris Johnson.
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