“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.”

We’ve been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs.

We are working hard at home and on the international stage to further identify the problems on the horizon and to ensure we reboot trade post-Covid-19.

I was interested in the ideas – freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That’s why I became a Tory.

They all want us to get Brexit done so that we can begin negotiations and forge new relationships that will open up new markets for British businesses, create jobs and attract new investment.

As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.

I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.

People want to start businesses because it’s a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.

Choice is a national instinct. This capitalist bedrock of our prosperity and security is threatened by a Labour Party that wants to overthrow the whole system.

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.

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.

I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.

Let’s cut the top rates of stamp duty to enable more movement to take place and also looking at the broader tax reform, simplifying our tax system.

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.

It is right that people and businesses retain as much of their own money as possible so that they have the freedom to innovate and invest in the future.

I feel I’m fortunate compared with a lot of parents in being able to afford a nanny but, you know, it’s expensive.

If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.

I was mischievous. I wasn’t bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn’t know.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

Donald Trump – and I don’t dislike Donald one single bit – has no idea how good the Mexican people are at building tunnels.

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

The guy who could be me, but he knows when to draw the line, is John Cena. John Cena can rock ‘n’ roll, let me tell you.

Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.