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.
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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People want to start businesses because it’s a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.
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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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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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The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.
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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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Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world.
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We’ve been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs.
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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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No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.
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I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
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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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I am delighted to be at the heart of this team of radical reformers in Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Nick Boles and many others. It’s a team I believe will deliver the change Britain needs.
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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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Britain is the home of economic freedom, with liberty guaranteed by the independence of our state institutions, and an absence of corruption assured by transparency.
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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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As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese.
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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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I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.
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When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme.
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All of us in Parliament now have a responsibility to get on with the process of leaving the EU and securing a more prosperous future for Britain as an open, global, trading nation.
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Women need to be less squeamish about making money.
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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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In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
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Britain and the US remain the Wild West for ideas, where pioneers push each other towards ever greater heights in the white heat of free enterprise.
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Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
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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.
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