Holly Valance bursts out as surprise Tory poster girl: Ex-Neighbours star swipes at ‘crap lefties’ and climate alarmists in shock appearance at launch of new ‘PopCon’ group – and she wants Jacob Rees-Mogg as PM
Ex-Neighbor star Holly Valance today emerged as a staunch supporter of the Tory right during a surprise appearance at the launch of a new Conservative faction.
The 40-year-old, who had a pop career after appearing on the Australian soap opera, attended an event in central London to hear from senior Tory MPs.
Valance attended the launch of the group ‘Popular Conservatism’ with her real estate mogul husband Nick Candy.
The couple listened to speeches from ex-prime minister Liz Truss, former business secretary Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and leading ‘Red Wall’ MP Lee Anderson.
After the event, Valance revealed how she was drawn to the Tory right after shunning “nonsense ideas” from “leftists” earlier in her life.
The mother-of-two lashed out at climate alarmists and expressed her concerns about “the way things are going in the country.”
She also expressed her wish for Sir Jacob to become Prime Minister and hailed Mr Anderson – better known as ’30p Lee’ for his past comments about food bank users – as ‘great’.
Ex-Neighbour star Holly Valance today emerged as a staunch supporter of the Tory right in a surprise appearance at the launch of a new Conservative faction
Valance attended the launch of the group ‘Popular Conservatism’ with her real estate mogul husband Nick Candy
The Popular Conservatism group – also known as the ‘PopCons’ – was formed by allies of ex-Prime Minister Liz Truss and aims to reform Britain to ‘allow conservative values to flourish’
Valance expressed her wish that ex-business secretary Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, one of the speakers at today’s event, would become Prime Minister
The former actress, who had a pop career after her stint on Neighbours, also called Ashfield MP Lee Anderson ‘amazing’.
Valance played the role of Felicity ‘Flick’ Scully in Neighbours
The Popular Conservatism group – also known as the ‘PopCons’ – was formed by allies of Ms Truss and aims to reform Britain to allow ‘conservative values to flourish’.
In an interview with GB News, Valance described how she was motivated to attend the launch event this morning to ‘listen to good ideas’.
“I am a citizen like everyone else here who is concerned about the way things are going in the country,” the former actress said.
‘There are a lot of things that worry me and concern me with the two small children I have to raise, what they might inherit. So I want to come and listen to ideas, good ideas.’
She added: ‘Everyone starts out as a lefty and then wakes up at some point after you start making money, working, trying to run a business, trying to buy a house, and then realize what rubbish ideas they all are – and then you go to the right.
‘The speakers today were fantastic. I actually found Liz very, very interesting to listen to. Jacob for PM!
‘The MP for Ashfield (Mr Anderson) was great, I like a Northerner, straight forward and very sensible.’
Speaking at the launch of ‘PopCon’, Mr Anderson argued that the British do not care about the government’s Net Zero emissions strategy.
And Valance appeared to agree with the Tory MP’s position, telling the TV news channel: ‘I just don’t think the climate crisis – or lack thereof – is a crisis.
“The air is better than when I was growing up. When I was growing up, it smelled when I walked down the street.
‘Cleaner, cheaper energy is what we need; we can get and have that just fine.
“But we’re just imposing all these restrictions on normal people who just want to go about their business and go to work, pick up their kids from school, go to the grocery store.
“It’s just madness, it’s like hitting your head against a wall every day.”