The free market is fundamentally humane and democratic, driven by ideas and millions of individual choices about what to do with our money which defy those who benefit from the status quo.
LIZ TRUSSI was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
More Liz Truss Quotes
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I feel I’ve come home at the Treasury.
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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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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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Choice is a national instinct. This capitalist bedrock of our prosperity and security is threatened by a Labour Party that wants to overthrow the whole system.
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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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One of my roles was as a commercial manager for liquid natural gas shipping, project economics and contract negotiation.
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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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In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
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The 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.
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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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I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
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Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
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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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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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Brexit has energised millions of people, young and old, to take part in our democracy and that’s a great thing.
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