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Footage exhibits that as Truss mentioned her help for former U.S. President Donald Trump and the financial plight of “common Americans,” the banner started to emerge from the again of the stage.
“I believe it was Bill Clinton’s adviser who stated ‘it’s the financial system silly,’ so I believe that he’ll in all probability win,” Truss stated of Trump because the banner — which learn “I crashed the financial system” — absolutely descended.
Clocking the stunt, Truss appeared visibly irritated, saying “that’s not humorous” — earlier than eradicating her microphone and leaving the stage.
Led By Donkeys stated in a follow-up publish on social media: “Liz Truss is on a pro-Trump talking tour. So we dropped a strategically-positioned remote-controlled lettuce banner.”
It’s not the primary time the group has tried a banner stunt. Earlier this yr, Led By Donkeys disrupted a speech by Reform UK chief Nigel Farage — who has questioned NATO’s technique in Ukraine — with a banner studying “I coronary heart Putin.”
Truss, who was in workplace for 49 days earlier than being ousted by her party amid market turmoil, grew to become one of many highest-profile casualties of the Conservatives’ latest normal election collapse.
The ex-prime minister misplaced her beforehand secure seat to Labour, and has since attacked her successor Rishi Sunak for an “abandonment of Conservative rules” and a bent to “trash” her file.
