Boris Johnson has said the world was safer and more stable when Donald Trump was in the White House.
Britain’s former Prime Minister said looking back at Trump’s last term in office there was little doubt the world felt safer, calmer and more stable.
He told The Sun: “Right now much of the world is craving the stability that goes with strong and decisive American leadership.”
Mr Johnson has previously used his Daily Mail column to endorse the former President, who continues to claim the 2020 election was stolen from him, faces multiple criminal charges and suggested he would be willing to let Vladimir Putin attack NATO countries.
His endorsement contrasts with that of Liz Truss who told a right-wing conference in the US that the world needs a Republican back in the White House, but stopped short of directly endorsing Mr Trump.
In a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (Cpac) near Washington DC, the former Prime Minister said conservatives being in power was the only way to “save the West” from opponents such as Russia, Iran and China.
Ms Truss said: “Of course we need a Republican back in the White House. By the way, it isn’t just America that needs it desperately, we need it desperately right across the free world, because you are the leaders of the free world, like it or not.”
She added: “We need Republicans who are prepared to fight. We need Republicans who aren’t going to cave in to the establishment.
“We need Republicans who are prepared to take on those difficult tasks even if it’s unpopular, even if they’re criticised, even if they don’t get invited to any dinner parties.”
But unlike Mr Johnson, Ms Truss stopped short of endorsing Republican front-runner and CPAC favourite Trump by name.
In her 15-minute address to CPAC, Ms Truss also took aim at “Chinos” – conservatives in name only – saying: “It’s people who think ‘I want to be popular, I don’t want to upset people, I don’t want to look like a mean person, I want to attend nice dinner parties in London or Washington DC, I want my friends to like me, I don’t want to cause trouble’.
“What those people are doing is they are compromising, and they are triangulating, and they are losing the argument.”
Ms Truss also repeated arguments she has made previously, claiming an “administrative state” and left-wing interests had undermined her policies in Downing Street.
She said: “Conservatives are now operating in what is now a hostile environment and we essentially need a bigger bazooka.”
Mr Trump and Reform UK founder Nigel Farage are due to address Cpac on Friday (February 23).
