I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.
LIZ TRUSSPeople won’t want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain.
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The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it sells.
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I have to admit I don’t like pizza. I love it. And I am prepared to do literally anything to get my hands on a slice.
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It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.
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I love Britain. It really worries me, the prospect of Ed Miliband propped up by Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP and what that could do to our country. It’s absolutely right that we highlight to voters that potential risk.
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Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial.
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A UK-Australia trade deal won’t just be a good thing, it’ll be a great thing, for our businesses, for our consumers, for our workers and for our two great countries.
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I didn’t become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country…
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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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When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications.
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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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We’re trendsetters, first to welcome brilliant inventions into our lives, from the microwave meal to Instagram.
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I hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things.
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I’m saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.
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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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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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I want to challenge those who aim to block change, stop development and restrict success. I want to challenge the caution that strangles risk-takers and go-getters.
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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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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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No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.
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We are fighting a Labour Party whose avowed enemy is capitalist bosses, whose instinct is to see income as a common pool resource, and whose leading figures find profit morally repugnant.
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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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I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.
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I have seen too many chaotic settings, where children are running around. There’s no sense of purpose.
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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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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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