When I travel around the country, I see great companies with new ideas and a can-do attitude. But too often they are in hand-to-hand and pen-to-paper combat with officialdom.
LIZ TRUSSLabour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us all paying higher taxes and the economy in tatters.
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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 think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
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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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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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Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us all paying higher taxes and the economy in tatters.
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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.
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It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.
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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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Schools receive 12% more per student for those doing media studies or psychology than they do for those doing maths. You could change that around, made a premium on doing maths.
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The free market is fundamentally humane and democratic, driven by ideas and millions of individual choices about what to do with our money which defy those who benefit from the status quo.
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I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.
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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 have seen too many chaotic settings, where children are running around. There’s no sense of purpose.
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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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I try to be as clear and straight as I can in what I am putting forward. I think people are fed up with politicians where there are lots of bland lines to take.
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I’d love the job of Chancellor one day.
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Tyrrells crisps are one of the top sellers in France. I don’t know if you’ve tasted crisps in other countries.
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Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.
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Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
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Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.
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We have lots of roadside stands in Norfolk where you can just pick up vegetables that people have grown in their garden and put the money in a pot.
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From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US – the world wants what Britain has to sell.
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I think we’ve got caught up in the weeds of Brexit, and… the approach has been to try and compromise and split the difference. And that to me is not what Brexit is about.
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I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
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I had never met anyone of my own age that was a Tory, so going to university and seeing people who were Tories and who believed in what I believed in was an eye-opener.
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