Liz Truss has called for the Supreme Court to be "abolished", after claiming the system of the UK government is "fatally flawed".
In an exclusive interview with GB News, the former Prime Minister told host Nigel Farage that political power has been given away to "unelected bodies" in the Supreme Court.
Her comments came during a tell-all discussion about her new book, 'Ten Years to Save the West'.
Outlining what she’d like to see happen to the Supreme Court, Truss said the UK should "abolish it", and called for Britain to be "more competitive" in its post-Brexit economy.
Truss told Farage: "Another important change, which I didn't fully appreciate until I became Lord Chancellor, was the fact that previously the Lord Chancellor was appointed by the Prime Minister and was responsible for appointing senior judges.
"Now, who appoints the senior judges?"
Truss continued: "It’s a quango, it is the Judicial Appointments Commission and what de facto happens is the judiciary have become a self-perpetuating oligarchy because the current Lord Chief Justice has a lot of say over who his or her successor is.
"So what we've done, or what Blair has done, is created a system that has undermined the core of the British Constitution, which is parliamentary sovereignty."
Truss warned that the quangos in the Supreme Court are "gradually moving away from the views of the public".
Truss told Nigel Farage: "Ultimately these bodies are democratically accountable. What is being created is another series of quangos making decisions which are gradually, I think, moving away from the views of the public."
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When asked about her view that much political power has been transferred to unaccountable quangos, she explained: "There's two elements. There's a quangocracy, but there's also the Civil Service itself and we are still operating under the sort of Northcote–Trevelyan Civil Service, the idea of impartiality.
"Yet, Sue Gray, a former senior civil servant, is now Chief of Staff for the Labour Party. We've had a whole bunch of Foreign Office civil servants last week saying ministers have too much power. There should be more power for the Foreign Office bureaucracy."
The former Prime Minister also spoke about her stance on Brexit, and how the UK can turbocharge its Brexit reforms, instead of suffering a "Stockholm Syndrome" to the EU.
Truss revealed: "We need to become more dynamic, more nimble, more competitive. We need to get rid of all the EU laws straight away.
"We need to get on with doing trade deals with our allies. We made a decision and that has huge consequences. We've had a Whitehall that's been shaped by being in Europe…and it's almost like we’re stuck in Stockholm Syndrome… officials are constantly looking to Brussels for validation and all of that needs to change.
"I felt our biggest problems were at home and of our own doing, you know, our terrible planning system. That means houses are sky high expensive, our education system still wasn't doing enough to teach children the absolute basics of English and maths, which is your passport to success. These are the things I really cared about."
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