I feel I’ve come home at the Treasury.
LIZ TRUSSEvery pound that comes into the Exchequer was earned by someone through hard work, and could have been used for a new car, a holiday or a treat for the children.
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We’re trendsetters, first to welcome brilliant inventions into our lives, from the microwave meal to Instagram.
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It’s absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.
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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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I want people to buy British because it’s the tastiest food and the most exciting food.
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Britain is the ideas factory of the world and has huge potential to benefit from the next technological revolution.
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It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.
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I think every woman in this country will understand what it means to be mansplained to. It happens in everyday life – you know, if you go into a shop, or you’re talking about finance.
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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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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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From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US – the world wants what Britain has to sell.
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Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.
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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 want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.
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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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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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