When I travel around the country, I see great companies with new ideas and a can-do attitude. But too often they are in hand-to-hand and pen-to-paper combat with officialdom.
LIZ TRUSSI’d love the job of Chancellor one day.
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I feel I’ve come home at the Treasury.
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I was interested in the ideas – freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That’s why I became a Tory.
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I’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.
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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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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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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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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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Every 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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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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The US is our largest trading partner and increasing transatlantic trade can help our economies bounce back from the economic challenge posed by coronavirus.
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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.
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And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn’t say the ones at my school were less capable. They could’ve been there.
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What I saw when I went to France was that really good quality education and childcare is seen there as a completely normal part of everyday life.
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We have lots of roadside stands in Norfolk where you can just pick up vegetables that people have grown in their garden and put the money in a pot.
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