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.
LIZ TRUSSThe 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.
More Liz Truss Quotes
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One of my roles was as a commercial manager for liquid natural gas shipping, project economics and contract negotiation.
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Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.
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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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I want people to buy British because it’s the tastiest food and the most exciting food.
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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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When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.
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I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
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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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In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we’ve just got all-or-nothing.
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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.
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Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world.
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Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
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I want to challenge those who aim to block change, stop development and restrict success. I want to challenge the caution that strangles risk-takers and go-getters.
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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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I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
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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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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 have seen too many chaotic settings, where children are running around. There’s no sense of purpose.
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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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No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.
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If we just had an election which is a kind of desiccated calculation, obviously I think the Conservatives have the best economic plans, but it is about more than that. It is about the overall person.
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I’m proud to say like many of my colleagues in the Conservative Party I am fully behind Theresa May’s Brexit plans.
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We’re trendsetters, first to welcome brilliant inventions into our lives, from the microwave meal to Instagram.
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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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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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Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have made no secret of their desire to stamp out individualism and enterprise.
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