The young people I meet want more freedom – to start firms, keep more of what they earn, and move to areas with opportunities without paying a fortune.
LIZ TRUSSIf 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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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 have seen too many chaotic settings, where children are running around. There’s no sense of purpose.
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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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Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have made no secret of their desire to stamp out individualism and enterprise.
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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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With Anglo-American capitalism increasingly under attack, those who believe in the power of free markets and enterprise to create wealth and social progress must stand up and be counted and champion our way of life.
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Choice is a national instinct. This capitalist bedrock of our prosperity and security is threatened by a Labour Party that wants to overthrow the whole system.
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When I travel around the country, I see great companies with new ideas and a can-do attitude. But too often they are in hand-to-hand and pen-to-paper combat with officialdom.
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We have lots of roadside stands in Norfolk where you can just pick up vegetables that people have grown in their garden and put the money in a pot.
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Kitchen-table start-ups and local entrepreneurs will find they have major new opportunities opened to them, as they gain easier and quicker access for their goods and services into one of the world’s largest markets.
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Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
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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 am delighted to be at the heart of this team of radical reformers in Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Nick Boles and many others. It’s a team I believe will deliver the change Britain needs.
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It’s absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.
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We’re trendsetters, first to welcome brilliant inventions into our lives, from the microwave meal to Instagram.
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