Schools receive 12% more per student for those doing media studies or psychology than they do for those doing maths. You could change that around, made a premium on doing maths.
LIZ TRUSSParliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
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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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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.
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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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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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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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We had meetings throughout the day and the girls had to play outside the office while mummy went to ‘boring’ meetings.
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We spent a lot of time talking about politics at home. We went to the camp at Greenham Common.
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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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And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn’t say the ones at my school were less capable. They could’ve been there.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.
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We need to give people another option from 16-18. Not everyone is going to want to become a rocket scientist but that doesn’t mean that maths isn’t extremely useful.
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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’m saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.
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I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.
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