I agree. It is vital we keep taxes low and the size of the state in check, to allow people to spend more of their own money.
LIZ TRUSSNo one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.
More Liz Truss Quotes
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I admire Peter Mandleson’s chutzpah and the way he transformed the Labour party but not his dubious ideas about Europe and industrial policy.
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And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn’t say the ones at my school were less capable. They could’ve been there.
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I hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things.
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If John McDonnell nationalised whole industries, they would be quickly taken over by bureaucrats more concerned about their careers than about customers.
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The US is our largest trading partner and increasing transatlantic trade can help our economies bounce back from the economic challenge posed by coronavirus.
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We are fighting a Labour Party whose avowed enemy is capitalist bosses, whose instinct is to see income as a common pool resource, and whose leading figures find profit morally repugnant.
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I want people to buy British because it’s the tastiest food and the most exciting food.
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People want to know about the details of politicians, what they like doing in their spare time, about their families. I think that’s human.
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Brexit has energised millions of people, young and old, to take part in our democracy and that’s a great thing.
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Britain and the US remain the Wild West for ideas, where pioneers push each other towards ever greater heights in the white heat of free enterprise.
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Taking control of our laws border and money, run not by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Brussels but by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Britain. That ladies and gentlemen is a dream worth fighting for.
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People won’t want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain.
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The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.
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I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
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I want to see popular free-market Conservatism where barriers are broken down, people have got more opportunities but keep more of their own money.
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Our aim should be to give the British people greater control of their lives in all regards.
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The teachers at my school were quite often card-carrying members of the Labour Party and it just was not part of the culture to approve of what the government was doing.
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We don’t know what’s around the corner – and we must do everything to ensure we get our country’s debts down, building our resilience so we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past.
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The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it sells.
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Every pound that comes into the Exchequer was earned by someone through hard work, and could have been used for a new car, a holiday or a treat for the children.
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Nobody wants to be in a room or their business to be funded because they’re a woman. They don’t want to be discriminated against because they’re a woman.
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What I saw when I went to France was that really good quality education and childcare is seen there as a completely normal part of everyday life.
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And I observe that for the vast majority of the Labour government we had a top rate of 40 per cent income tax. It’s now higher, and I think we should look to get to a simpler, lower tax system.
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I have to admit I don’t like pizza. I love it. And I am prepared to do literally anything to get my hands on a slice.
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I’d love the job of Chancellor one day.
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It’s a merger of home life and work life. They aren’t that separate, I must confess, and my daughters know an awful lot about childcare reform now because of it.
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