BRITAIN is already a socialist country, former Tory premier Liz Truss told a conference fringe meeting today.

“We are already in socialism,” the shortest-serving prime minister ever announced in claims that will shock campaigners for a new society.

Ms Truss cited the high level of state spending, record taxation, a “huge regulatory bureaucracy” and an alleged “European-style economy” as evidence of the shift.

She blamed “Blairite and Brownite economic policy” compounded by the Tories spending “more on top of that.”

Maintaining her revolutionary posture, Truss told the Tories that they were “no longer the party of the establishment” and had to attack the centres of power.

She argued that Chancellor Rachel Reeves “is going along with Treasury orthodoxy, going along with Bank of England orthodoxy and we have seen where that leads,” which is no less true for being said by Ms Truss.

Challenged to say something to cheer her audience up, Ms Truss answered: “Donald Trump might win.”

She said she would not endorse any of the candidates for Tory leader, but qualified this by announcing that if far-right Argentine President Javier Milei were on the ballot paper, she would back him “like a shot.”

As unreflective as ever, Truss denied any responsibility for the market chaos which was triggered by her 2022 mini-budget, and in turn, precipitated her quick-fire departure from office, followed by the loss of her Commons seat.

She re-dedicated herself to the “fight to save western civilisation,” but was coy about her personal plans.

“My family never know what is going to happen next. They are used to the roller-coaster of life with me,” she revealed.

The Tory Party may not be, however. Challenged by the moderator to express support for getting Ms Truss back into Parliament, most of the audience remained mute.