I try to be as clear and straight as I can in what I am putting forward. I think people are fed up with politicians where there are lots of bland lines to take.
LIZ TRUSSThe biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.
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When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme.
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We are fighting a Labour Party whose avowed enemy is capitalist bosses, whose instinct is to see income as a common pool resource, and whose leading figures find profit morally repugnant.
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Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
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I had never met anyone of my own age that was a Tory, so going to university and seeing people who were Tories and who believed in what I believed in was an eye-opener.
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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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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’m fortunate compared with a lot of parents in being able to afford a nanny but, you know, it’s expensive.
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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.
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No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.
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Schools receive 12% more per student for those doing media studies or psychology than they do for those doing maths. You could change that around, made a premium on doing maths.
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