Just 24 hours after taking over as British Prime Minister Liz Truss he became the protagonist of the first scandal of his reign. The state television revealed an interview in which he described the country’s monarchy as “embarrassing” and in which he presents himself as a militant of the liberal political forces, contrary to the one that brought him to the position he occupied just a day ago.

“I against the idea that people can be born to rule; that people, because of the families into which they are born, can become heads of state of our country. I think it’s embarrassingTruss said in 1994, when asked by ITV News what he thought of the monarchy.

Image and statement released minutes after Truss met Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Palace, Scotland, and kissed his hand before being sworn in as the third prime minister in the country’s history, after Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May, both conservatives.

In the year in which the interview that sparked public controversy was conducted, Truss was 19 years old and the consultation was done because of the campaign in which he was promoting abolition of the monarchy in England.

His statement at that time not only sparked controversy because of the opinion he had then and can have now about the Crown, but also because he said it as a militant of the Kingdom. Liberal Democratic Party from Brighton. In other words, the political force that defied the Conservative Party of which he is now leader and that catapulted him to 10 Downing Street as Boris Johnson’s successor.

“We Liberal Democrats believe in opportunity for all, we believe in justice and common sense”said 28 years ago Liz, who was a teenager at the time, laid the foundation for the monarchy.

by year, Truss stopped thinking like that, switched sides and it became a political force with an ideology as opposed to liberal ideology, which made it the maximum reference for the British status quo.

An archive review also found Liz Truss repented of her anti-monarchist stance. When, some time later, he returned to see and hear what he had to say at the age of 19, he made a single reflection: “I was a teenager then and I think people who never change their minds about anything and think the same things at 16 as they do at 46, first of all, they are not normal people like me“.