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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn and Helena Horton

Red meat, no lettuce: Nigel Farage and Liz Truss attend private lunch after week of Tory defections

Liz Truss and Nigel Farage, seen here at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference in the US, enjoyed a lunch of steak and chips at a club in Mayfair, London.
Liz Truss and Nigel Farage, seen here at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference in the US, enjoyed a lunch of steak and chips at a club in Mayfair, London. Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP

If it was on the menu, a side helping of lettuce never made it to the table. Over blood-red steak and chips, Nigel Farage and Liz Truss came together on Monday for a discreet lunch at a swish Mayfair club, organised by a climate-denying US thinktank.

Lois Perry, a former leader of the far-right Ukip party who is now Europe director of the Heartland Institute, posted photographs, now deleted, on X of Farage addressing others, including Truss, at the meal.

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