As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.
LIZ TRUSSWe’ve been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs.
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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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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 have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.
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One of my roles was as a commercial manager for liquid natural gas shipping, project economics and contract negotiation.
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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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In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
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When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications.
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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 feel I’ve come home at the Treasury.
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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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But I really think British crisps are world leaders. I went to China and they told me there is only one type of potato available there.
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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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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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If we just had an election which is a kind of desiccated calculation, obviously I think the Conservatives have the best economic plans, but it is about more than that. It is about the overall person.
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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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