One of my roles was as a commercial manager for liquid natural gas shipping, project economics and contract negotiation.
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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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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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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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If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.
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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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Taking control of our laws border and money, run not by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Brussels but by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Britain. That ladies and gentlemen is a dream worth fighting for.
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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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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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Election campaigns always have to have colour and excitement and interest.
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I admire Peter Mandleson’s chutzpah and the way he transformed the Labour party but not his dubious ideas about Europe and industrial policy.
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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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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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We want a fully comprehensive trade deal that reflects our deep, ongoing relationship, the friendship between our two countries.
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In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
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I try to be as clear and straight as I can in what I am putting forward. I think people are fed up with politicians where there are lots of bland lines to take.
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When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications.
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When we’ve looked into trying to find a full daycare place in London it’s just been impossible. You just cannot get one.
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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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People want to know about the details of politicians, what they like doing in their spare time, about their families. I think that’s human.
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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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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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I think every woman in this country will understand what it means to be mansplained to. It happens in everyday life – you know, if you go into a shop, or you’re talking about finance.
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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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Our aim should be to give the British people greater control of their lives in all regards.
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Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
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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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