“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.”

Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.

We don’t know what’s around the corner – and we must do everything to ensure we get our country’s debts down, building our resilience so we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past.

Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.

From the coffee bars of Camden to the gin joints of Norfolk – across Britain, a revolution is brewing. And no, it’s not John McDonnell’s bitter socialist hooch. It’s a generation growing up with an entirely different view of the world – free thinking, optimistic and hungry for success.

As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese.

The fact that Australians want to come and live and work in Britain, and Brits want to come and live and work in Australia.

I don’t like tokenism. I don’t like the idea that somebody should just appear at a press conference or in a media interview because they are a woman.

Tyrrells crisps are one of the top sellers in France. I don’t know if you’ve tasted crisps in other countries.

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.

I’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.

I’m saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

We want a fully comprehensive trade deal that reflects our deep, ongoing relationship, the friendship between our two countries.

Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.

People want to know about the details of politicians, what they like doing in their spare time, about their families. I think that’s human.

As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.

Our public services and the great people who work in them are improving lives.

Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won’t stand idle hoping that our economy improves.

In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.

This isn’t a stable system.

We’re not where we should be in terms of our national economies.

In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders

Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.

There is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages …