Ex-UK Prime Minister Truss to start free speech network to combat government censorship

Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Liz Truss says she is working on establishing a free speech media network to combat government censorship. 

"I'm working on a new free speech network to take that on because we cannot continue like this," Truss said Friday on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "And if you don't have freedom of speech, you have nothing."

She said that freedom of speech is under threat in the U.K. and that people have been put in jail for social media posts.

Vice President JD Vance last week gave a speech about free speech suppression in Europe and cited how in the U.K. specifically a man was charged for praying outside of an abortion clinic. 

"There's a real problem with increased powers of the government and also a lack of transparency and a lack of accountability in the use of those powers," Truss said. 

She said that freedom of the press originated in Great Britain and now it seems to be going away. 

"We have a regime called "Ofcom" which doesn't just regulate broadcast media," Truss said. "It's regulating online media and I think it is terrible for democracy because massive stories in the UK have been suppressed."