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Liz Truss Fighter Pilot refers to a picture of Liz Truss, the foreign secretary of the UK Government wearing a fighter pilot's uniform which was taken in 2021. It gained prominence in February 2022 when Liz Truss' involvement in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Origin

The picture was originally circulated around the press on October 21st, 2021 when Liz Truss visited the HMS Queen Elizabeth, a warship built in the United Kingdom when it was deployed in Mumbai in October 2021. (see below)

Great to see RAF Marham's Dambusters Squadron as part of @HMSQNLZ deployment off the coast of Mumbai. #CSG21 #Norfolk 🇬🇧🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/ZtVisdRhG7

— Liz Truss (@trussliz) October 24, 2021

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The picture of Liz wearing a fighter pilot's uniform didn't resurface until February 2022 during the Russia-Ukraine conflict where in which users on social media started creating photoshops of the picture and shared them.

On February 28th, 2022, satrial news website, The Poke posted on their account asking users to send in their best photoshops of Liz Truss wearing the uniform (see below)

Send us your Liz Truss captions/photoshops and we’ll round up the best #pokechallenge #liztruss pic.twitter.com/3Y6C2iZr0X

— The Poke (@ThePoke) February 28, 2022

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