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.
LIZ TRUSSIn 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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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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From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US – the world wants what Britain has to sell.
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Every pound that comes into the Exchequer was earned by someone through hard work, and could have been used for a new car, a holiday or a treat for the children.
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When I travel around the country, I see great companies with new ideas and a can-do attitude. But too often they are in hand-to-hand and pen-to-paper combat with officialdom.
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I’d love the job of Chancellor one day.
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I feel I’m fortunate compared with a lot of parents in being able to afford a nanny but, you know, it’s expensive.
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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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Election campaigns always have to have colour and excitement and interest.
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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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I think we’ve got caught up in the weeds of Brexit, and… the approach has been to try and compromise and split the difference. And that to me is not what Brexit is about.
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It’s vital to our economic mission that we fight vested interests, and make sure our country’s opportunities are open to everyone – big or small, north or south, man or woman.
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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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In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we’ve just got all-or-nothing.
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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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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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