One of my roles was as a commercial manager for liquid natural gas shipping, project economics and contract negotiation.
LIZ TRUSSBritain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
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Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.
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Except this time, there will be no choice and nowhere to turn when things go wrong.
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I have to admit I don’t like pizza. I love it. And I am prepared to do literally anything to get my hands on a slice.
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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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If John McDonnell nationalised whole industries, they would be quickly taken over by bureaucrats more concerned about their careers than about customers.
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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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I’m very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.
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I feel I’ve come home at the Treasury.
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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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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.
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It’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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The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.
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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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We want a fully comprehensive trade deal that reflects our deep, ongoing relationship, the friendship between our two countries.
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People want to know about the details of politicians, what they like doing in their spare time, about their families. I think that’s human.
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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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Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
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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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We’ve been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs.
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The teachers at my school were quite often card-carrying members of the Labour Party and it just was not part of the culture to approve of what the government was doing.
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Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world.
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I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.
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Brexit has energised millions of people, young and old, to take part in our democracy and that’s a great thing.
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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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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
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