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The attack on democracy in Ukraine should bring an end to the culture wars including debates about statues and pronouns in the UK, the Foreign Secretary has said.

Liz Truss also said Russias aggression in Ukraine showed the UK end its dependency on cheap goods from authoritarian regimes.

The Cabinet minister, who is being increasingly touted as a successor to Boris Johnson, said Vladimir Putins invasion of Ukraine showed the UK should be proud of its longstanding commitment to freedom and democracy.

This is what is important, this is what matters, she said.

Ms Truss, who holds the post of equalities minister alongside her role as Foreign Secretary, continued: Now is the time to end the culture of self-doubt, the constant self-questioning and introspection the ludicrous debates about languages, statues and pronouns.

She added: Our history, warts and all, is what makes us what we are today.

Ms Truss also insisted that the conflict in eastern Europe showed that the West needed to change how functions economically.

Were ending our dependency on authoritarian regimes, she said. The West focused on cheap goods at the expense of freedom and security. Never again.

Her comments came at the Conservative Spring Conference in Blackpool, where Defence Secretary Ben Wallace compared Mr Putin to the leader of Argentina during the Falklands War 40 years ago.

He said that like Leopoldo Galtieri, Mr Putin had sent young soldiers to die for his own political reasons.

Just like in 1982, Putins arrogant assumptions have directly led to the casualties and attrition among the Russian army, Mr Wallace told the Tory spring conference in Blackpool.

The Kremlin assumed that Ukraine would not fight he was wrong. The Kremlin assumed his army was invincible they were wrong.

And they assumed the international community would splinter and theyve been proven wrong.

Mr Wallace said that during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, mothers of those killed in action called the dead their boys in zinc because of the metal coffins they used.

None of us should let todays Russian president forget despite dozens of presidents and prime ministers urging him not to invade, the international communitys calls for peace, he chose zinc.

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