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L iz Truss risked re-opening Conservative Party wounds over Brexit after criticising the government for not moving fast enough to remove EU laws from the statute books. The former Prime Minister, who lasted just 49 days in office, also used her speech, delivered to a right-wing think-tank in the US, to call Emmanuel Macron’s visit to China “a mistake” and accuse the French president of drawing a “moral equivalence” between China and the West. Speaking about the extent of EU laws post-Brexit, she said: “I liken it to a situation of getting divorced and still living in the same house...