I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
LIZ TRUSSNobody 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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Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world.
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I’m very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.
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I admire Peter Mandleson’s chutzpah and the way he transformed the Labour party but not his dubious ideas about Europe and industrial policy.
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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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We want a fully comprehensive trade deal that reflects our deep, ongoing relationship, the friendship between our two countries.
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And I observe that for the vast majority of the Labour government we had a top rate of 40 per cent income tax. It’s now higher, and I think we should look to get to a simpler, lower tax system.
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Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
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They all want us to get Brexit done so that we can begin negotiations and forge new relationships that will open up new markets for British businesses, create jobs and attract new investment.
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Taking control of our laws border and money, run not by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Brussels but by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Britain. That ladies and gentlemen is a dream worth fighting for.
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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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I think we’ve got caught up in the weeds of Brexit, and… the approach has been to try and compromise and split the difference. And that to me is not what Brexit is about.
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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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The US is our largest trading partner and increasing transatlantic trade can help our economies bounce back from the economic challenge posed by coronavirus.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.
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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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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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When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme.
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Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
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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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People want to start businesses because it’s a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.
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Britain is the home of economic freedom, with liberty guaranteed by the independence of our state institutions, and an absence of corruption assured by transparency.
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Free-flow play is not compulsory, but there is a belief across lots of nurseries that it is.
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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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I’d love the job of Chancellor one day.
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Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial.
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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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