Britain is the ideas factory of the world and has huge potential to benefit from the next technological revolution.
LIZ TRUSSI was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US – the world wants what Britain has to sell.
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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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Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us all paying higher taxes and the economy in tatters.
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Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
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But I really think British crisps are world leaders. I went to China and they told me there is only one type of potato available there.
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We need to give people another option from 16-18. Not everyone is going to want to become a rocket scientist but that doesn’t mean that maths isn’t extremely useful.
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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.
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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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Traditionally, Conservatives have argued that low taxes are a route to self-determination.
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I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.
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The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.
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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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It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.
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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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