We need to give people another option from 16-18. Not everyone is going to want to become a rocket scientist but that doesn’t mean that maths isn’t extremely useful.
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More Liz Truss Quotes
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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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I love Britain. It really worries me, the prospect of Ed Miliband propped up by Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP and what that could do to our country. It’s absolutely right that we highlight to voters that potential risk.
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We had meetings throughout the day and the girls had to play outside the office while mummy went to ‘boring’ meetings.
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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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Traditionally, Conservatives have argued that low taxes are a route to self-determination.
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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 think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
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We are working hard at home and on the international stage to further identify the problems on the horizon and to ensure we reboot trade post-Covid-19.
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All of us in Parliament now have a responsibility to get on with the process of leaving the EU and securing a more prosperous future for Britain as an open, global, trading nation.
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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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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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Nobody wants to be in a room or their business to be funded because they’re a woman. They don’t want to be discriminated against because they’re a woman.
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It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.
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I want to see popular free-market Conservatism where barriers are broken down, people have got more opportunities but keep more of their own money.
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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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When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.
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I’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.
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In London the average person is paying 50 per cent of their income on rent. Just think how much better off people would feel if that number was a lot lower.
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Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
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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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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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Our aim should be to give the British people greater control of their lives in all regards.
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Women need to be less squeamish about making money.
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And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn’t say the ones at my school were less capable. They could’ve been there.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
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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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