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Liz Truss Cheese Clip The Best Dairy-Based Rant You'll Ever See

'This. Is. A. Disgrace.'
Chris York
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Senior Editor, HuffPost UK

Environment Secretary Liz Truss arrives in Downing Street, London, for the final Cabinet meeting with David Cameron as Prime Minister.
Environment Secretary Liz Truss arrives in Downing Street, London, for the final Cabinet meeting with David Cameron as Prime Minister.
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Liz Truss was appointed Justice Secretary last week in Theresa May’s radical shake up of the Tory cabinet.

The MP for South West Norfolk moved from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, where she fought particularly hard for UK-grown produce.

So it’s worth a little throwback to a speech she made in 2014 purely for its cracking comedy value.

The whole clip is worth watching but skip to 1:05 for the dairy-based delivery.

That pause is everything.

It was so good it made in onto ‘Have I got News For You’.

It wasn’t the only time Truss has gone viral for the wrong reasons.

Last year she suggested children should know “the proper names of animals” which prompted this...

Liz Truss wants children to be taught the "proper names of animals" like when we were kids... pic.twitter.com/Gap3VsdTVg

— Dave Merron (@dpmerron) October 5, 2015

Liz Truss wants school children to learn the "proper names of animals". Perhaps starting with cats. For example, Steve the cat. #CPC15

— amusebarf (@amusebarf) October 5, 2015

Inspired by Liz Truss and her wish to call animals their proper names I've baked a gallus gallus domesticus and allium porrum pie for tea.

— Peter Smith (@Redpeter99) October 5, 2015

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