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.
LIZ TRUSSIt’s almost 10 years since the 2008 crisis, but we all still remember the consequences of ignoring threats to the public finances.
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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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All of us in Parliament now have a responsibility to get on with the process of leaving the EU and securing a more prosperous future for Britain as an open, global, trading nation.
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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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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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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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As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese.
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I was interested in the ideas – freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That’s why I became a Tory.
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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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When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications.
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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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And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.
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In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
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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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In order to retain our position as the dynamic duo of the world, it’s vital that in the UK and US we keep opportunities open for new people and new ideas. And we can never allow our economies to get furred up.
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But I really think British crisps are world leaders. I went to China and they told me there is only one type of potato available there.
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