Holly Valance criticises ‘leftie’ concepts – and backs Jacob Rees-Mogg for PM

Former Neighbours star Holly Valance has described “leftie” concepts as “crap” and backed Jacob Rees-Mogg for prime minister.

The actress, mannequin and former singer, who topped the charts within the UK and Australia together with her hit music Kiss Kiss in 2002, made the feedback on the launch of former prime minister Liz Truss’s Popular Conservatism – or “PopCon” – motion on Tuesday.

Valance, who attended the rally in Westminster together with her British property tycoon husband Nick Candy, described the audio system as “fantastic” in an interview on the occasion.

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“I would say that everyone starts as a leftie and then wakes up at some point after you start either making money, working, trying to run a business, trying to buy a home, and then realise what crap ideas they all are,” she mentioned. “And then you go to the right.”

Ms Truss was “really, really interesting to listen to”, Valance instructed GB News, earlier than including: “Jacob for PM.”

The 40-year-old additionally described Ashfield MP and former deputy Tory occasion chairman Lee Anderson as “awesome”, saying: “Love a northerner, straight to the point and very sensible, and for real people.”

The PopCon group claims it’s not trying to change Rishi Sunak as chief of the Conservatives, however as a substitute desires to spark a debate on concepts.

Ms Truss, Mr Rees-Mogg and Mr Anderson had been among the many Tories who addressed the convention, and between them they challenged the federal government’s place on smoking bans, the strategy to web zero, the European Convention on Human Rights, tax, and quangos.

Ms Truss mentioned the present authorities was failing to tackle “left-wing extremists”, and in addition inspired “secret Conservatives” to come back ahead to marketing campaign and stand for the occasion.

Also within the viewers had been former house secretary Dame Priti Patel, ex-chief whip Wendy Morton, former Tory occasion chair Sir Jake Berry, MP Brendan Clarke-Smith, and Tory peer Lord Frost.

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Valance starred as Felicity “Flick” Scully in Neighbours from 1999 to 2002, and in addition returned alongside Natalie Imbruglia for what was regarded as the ultimate episode in 2022 – earlier than the Australian cleaning soap was resurrected by Amazon Freevee.

She launched her pop profession after leaving Neighbours, releasing two albums in 2002 and 2003, and went on to seem in movies together with Taken, alongside Liam Neeson, and the TV sequence Prison Break within the mid-2000s.