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.
LIZ TRUSSOne of my roles was as a commercial manager for liquid natural gas shipping, project economics and contract negotiation.
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Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial.
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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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Britain is the ideas factory of the world and has huge potential to benefit from the next technological revolution.
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Women are not going to start businesses because we tell them we don’t have enough people of a certain group.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.
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And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn’t say the ones at my school were less capable. They could’ve been there.
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I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
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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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I agree. It is vital we keep taxes low and the size of the state in check, to allow people to spend more of their own money.
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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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We need to give people another option from 16-18. Not everyone is going to want to become a rocket scientist but that doesn’t mean that maths isn’t extremely useful.
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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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From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US – the world wants what Britain has to sell.
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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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I’m a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.
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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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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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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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People want to start businesses because it’s a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.
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In order to retain our position as the dynamic duo of the world, it’s vital that in the UK and US we keep opportunities open for new people and new ideas. And we can never allow our economies to get furred up.
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No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.
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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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In 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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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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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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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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