When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications.
LIZ TRUSSI was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
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Economics and finance is the final frontier for women; it’s the last thing they will conquer because controlling finance is at the heart of everything in government.
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Nobody wants to be in a room or their business to be funded because they’re a woman. They don’t want to be discriminated against because they’re a woman.
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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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Trade is critical to us all – it ensures we have what we need to live, that the NHS gets the equipment it needs to save lives, and that developing countries can prosper.
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Tyrrells crisps are one of the top sellers in France. I don’t know if you’ve tasted crisps in other countries.
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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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I’d love the job of Chancellor one day.
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And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.
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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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Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
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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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I’m very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.
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I had never met anyone of my own age that was a Tory, so going to university and seeing people who were Tories and who believed in what I believed in was an eye-opener.
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When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme.
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Britain is the ideas factory of the world and has huge potential to benefit from the next technological revolution.
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