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Liz Truss Pork Tweet Resurfaces Amid Leadership Race

Liz Truss
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A decade-old tweet about pork belly from the account of prime ministerial candidate Liz Truss has resurfaced online.

The 2010 post, from before the current foreign secretary had even become an MP, discusses ‘pigging out’ at her local butchers.

It reads: “Just been pigging out on pork belly from Sargeant’s, where the meat is slaughtered on the premises. Makes a huge difference.”

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Responses to the tweet came in thick and fast after it resurfaced this week, with one user responding: “Makes a huge difference to the pig.”

Another said: “This is sickening in one way, but shows a lack of hypocrisy on the part of a meat eater – although it seems unlikely that that will help anyone who wants to be PM.”

A third added: “Weird thing to tweet.”

Bizarrely, this is not the first time Truss has spoken of her penchant for pork.

At the 2014 Conservative Party Conference while she was secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs, she told members: “In December, I’ll be in Beijing, opening up new pork markets.”

She seemed overjoyed by this, grinning at the audience and allowing for a now-trademark awkward pause – seemingly encouraging applause.

Truss is now the bookmakers’ favourite to become the next Tory Party leader, and in turn Prime Minister, following the resignation of Boris Johnson in July.

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During her campaign, in which she pits her wits against former chancellor Rishi Sunak, she visited a school where she was grilled by less-than-impressed pupils.

She also stood in front of a huge slogan adorned with a bad typo, as well as getting completely muddled up during her own press conference.

While out on the campaign trail, Truss has promised, if elected by Tory members, a ‘red tape bonfire’ by 2023.

She also says she will set a ‘sunset’ deadline for every piece of EU-derived business regulation and assess whether it stimulates domestic growth or investment.

Experts will then be asked to create ‘better home-grown laws’ to replace failed ones if they are not scrapped entirely.

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Written by Cal Gaunt

Cal is a former content editor at IGV who specialised in writing trending and entertainment news. He previously worked as a news reporter at the Lancashire Telegraph and earned an NCTJ in Sports Journalism.