Brexit has energised millions of people, young and old, to take part in our democracy and that’s a great thing.
LIZ TRUSSI didn’t become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country…
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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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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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The fact that Australians want to come and live and work in Britain, and Brits want to come and live and work in Australia.
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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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Our aim should be to give the British people greater control of their lives in all regards.
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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 had never met anyone of my own age that was a Tory, so going to university and seeing people who were Tories and who believed in what I believed in was an eye-opener.
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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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The free market is fundamentally humane and democratic, driven by ideas and millions of individual choices about what to do with our money which defy those who benefit from the status quo.
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I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.
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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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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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As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese.
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I feel I’ve come home at the Treasury.
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I’m a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.
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