As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
LIZ TRUSSI 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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Britain is the ideas factory of the world and has huge potential to benefit from the next technological revolution.
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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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The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.
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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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When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme.
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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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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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It is right that people and businesses retain as much of their own money as possible so that they have the freedom to innovate and invest in the future.
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Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.
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Brexit has energised millions of people, young and old, to take part in our democracy and that’s a great thing.
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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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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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Except this time, there will be no choice and nowhere to turn when things go wrong.
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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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And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.
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