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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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.
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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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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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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’m a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.
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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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People won’t want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain.
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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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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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Our aim should be to give the British people greater control of their lives in all regards.
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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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From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US – the world wants what Britain has to sell.
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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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When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications.
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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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