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.
LIZ TRUSSWe spent a lot of time talking about politics at home. We went to the camp at Greenham Common.
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I’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.
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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.
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From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US – the world wants what Britain has to sell.
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I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
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No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.
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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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People won’t want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain.
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It’s vital to our economic mission that we fight vested interests, and make sure our country’s opportunities are open to everyone – big or small, north or south, man or woman.
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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 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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Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
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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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From better access to American markets for our beef and lamb farmers, to cutting tariffs on dairy products like cheese, which are up to 17 per cent, there are significant opportunities for UK farming.
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Economics and finance is the final frontier for women; it’s the last thing they will conquer because controlling finance is at the heart of everything in government.
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