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 TRUSSI think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
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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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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 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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I feel I’ve come home at the Treasury.
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Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.
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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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We don’t know what’s around the corner – and we must do everything to ensure we get our country’s debts down, building our resilience so we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past.
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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 feel I’m fortunate compared with a lot of parents in being able to afford a nanny but, you know, it’s expensive.
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No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.
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Women need to be less squeamish about making money.
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I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
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Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.
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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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In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
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