I don’t like tokenism. I don’t like the idea that somebody should just appear at a press conference or in a media interview because they are a woman.
LIZ TRUSSIn Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
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With Anglo-American capitalism increasingly under attack, those who believe in the power of free markets and enterprise to create wealth and social progress must stand up and be counted and champion our way of life.
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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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I love Britain. It really worries me, the prospect of Ed Miliband propped up by Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP and what that could do to our country. It’s absolutely right that we highlight to voters that potential risk.
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In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we’ve just got all-or-nothing.
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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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Our aim should be to give the British people greater control of their lives in all regards.
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I’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.
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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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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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Women are not going to start businesses because we tell them we don’t have enough people of a certain group.
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When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme.
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It’s absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.
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I’m very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.
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I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.
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What you notice in French nurseries is just how calm they are. All of their classes are structured and led by teachers. It’s a requirement.
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