All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
LIZ TRUSSBritain 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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I didn’t become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country…
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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 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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Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.
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It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.
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If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.
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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 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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In order to retain our position as the dynamic duo of the world, it’s vital that in the UK and US we keep opportunities open for new people and new ideas. And we can never allow our economies to get furred up.
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Leaving the European Union really does give us a chance as a country to become more outward-looking, to become more competitive, and to deepen our links with our partners right across the world.
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I’m proud to say like many of my colleagues in the Conservative Party I am fully behind Theresa May’s Brexit plans.
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It’s a merger of home life and work life. They aren’t that separate, I must confess, and my daughters know an awful lot about childcare reform now because of it.
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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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I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
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