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.
LIZ TRUSSIt’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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I feel I’ve come home at the Treasury.
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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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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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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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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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The young people I meet want more freedom – to start firms, keep more of what they earn, and move to areas with opportunities without paying a fortune.
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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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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
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Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial.
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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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In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we’ve just got all-or-nothing.
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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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What you notice in French nurseries is just how calm they are. All of their classes are structured and led by teachers. It’s a requirement.
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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 think every woman in this country will understand what it means to be mansplained to. It happens in everyday life – you know, if you go into a shop, or you’re talking about finance.
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