Liz Truss is launching the Liz Truss Show on Friday meant to “fight for the West”Liz Truss has expressed bafflement that the Royal Navy will not break the law for government ministers.The UK’s shortest-serving prime minister suggested they should be used to “turn around” small boats carrying asylum seekers across the English Channel from France.But she bemoaned the fact that they would refuse to do so if it meant carrying out an illegal act – and bizarrely said Tony Blair, who has not been PM for nearly 20 years, is to blame.Truss also criticised the civil service while being interviewed on a Daily Telegraph podcast.She said: “Lots of people say we need to turn around the boats in the Channel to stop illegal immigration.“As a government minister, if you ordered – even as prime minister – if you ordered the Navy to do that, they would just say ‘we’re not doing that because it’s illegal’.“So the civil service now decide what’s legal and what’s not legal and can essentially refuse to do what government ministers say under the system that was set up under Tony Blair.”Liz Truss is upset that the Prime Minister can’t order the Royal Navy to do illegal stuff. 🤦 pic.twitter.com/cWlkIM0qkd— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) January 29, 2026According to the Armed Forces Act 2006, an order given to military personnel “must be lawful”.The legislation says: “An order to do something which would amount to a crime, for example, would not be lawful.”Related…Trump Lawyers Use, Er, Liz Truss Quotes To Support His $10bn Defamation Claim Against BBC’Is This A Joke?’ Liz Truss Rinsed After Launching YouTube Show’Not A Patriot’: Liz Truss Slammed For Suggesting Trump Should Destroy The BBC HuffPost UK – Athena2 – All Entries (Public) Read More