When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications.
LIZ TRUSSThe young people I meet want more freedom – to start firms, keep more of what they earn, and move to areas with opportunities without paying a fortune.
More Liz Truss Quotes
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I am quite bolshy, sometimes. I like to get my own way, lets put it like that.
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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.
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I’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.
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I’m saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.
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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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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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Kitchen-table start-ups and local entrepreneurs will find they have major new opportunities opened to them, as they gain easier and quicker access for their goods and services into one of the world’s largest markets.
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People won’t want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain.
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Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world.
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As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese.
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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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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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In London the average person is paying 50 per cent of their income on rent. Just think how much better off people would feel if that number was a lot lower.
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If we just had an election which is a kind of desiccated calculation, obviously I think the Conservatives have the best economic plans, but it is about more than that. It is about the overall person.
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A UK-Australia trade deal won’t just be a good thing, it’ll be a great thing, for our businesses, for our consumers, for our workers and for our two great countries.
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