Britain is the home of economic freedom, with liberty guaranteed by the independence of our state institutions, and an absence of corruption assured by transparency.
LIZ TRUSSI 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.
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Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us all paying higher taxes and the economy in tatters.
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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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What I saw when I went to France was that really good quality education and childcare is seen there as a completely normal part of everyday life.
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In London the average person is paying 50 per cent of their income on rent. Just think how much better off people would feel if that number was a lot lower.
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If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.
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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.
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I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
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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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Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
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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.
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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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A UK-Australia trade deal won’t just be a good thing, it’ll be a great thing, for our businesses, for our consumers, for our workers and for our two great countries.
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I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.
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Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
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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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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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I agree. It is vital we keep taxes low and the size of the state in check, to allow people to spend more of their own money.
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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 was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
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I didn’t become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country…
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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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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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Traditionally, Conservatives have argued that low taxes are a route to self-determination.
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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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And I observe that for the vast majority of the Labour government we had a top rate of 40 per cent income tax. It’s now higher, and I think we should look to get to a simpler, lower tax system.
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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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