I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.
LIZ TRUSSI 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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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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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.
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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.
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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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Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.
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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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Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.
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No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.
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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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From the coffee bars of Camden to the gin joints of Norfolk – across Britain, a revolution is brewing. And no, it’s not John McDonnell’s bitter socialist hooch. It’s a generation growing up with an entirely different view of the world – free thinking, optimistic and hungry for success.
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As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese.
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Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
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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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When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme.
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Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have made no secret of their desire to stamp out individualism and enterprise.
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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 feel I’ve come home at the Treasury.
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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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The fact that Australians want to come and live and work in Britain, and Brits want to come and live and work in Australia.
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It’s vital to our economic mission that we fight vested interests, and make sure our country’s opportunities are open to everyone – big or small, north or south, man or woman.
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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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From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US – the world wants what Britain has to sell.
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Economics and finance is the final frontier for women; it’s the last thing they will conquer because controlling finance is at the heart of everything in government.
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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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Kitchen-table start-ups and local entrepreneurs will find they have major new opportunities opened to them, as they gain easier and quicker access for their goods and services into one of the world’s largest markets.
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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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