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.
LIZ TRUSSI feel I’ve come home at the Treasury.
More Liz Truss Quotes
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
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Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.
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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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I’m a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.
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I was interested in the ideas – freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That’s why I became a Tory.
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Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.
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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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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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Women need to be less squeamish about making money.
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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 spent a lot of time talking about politics at home. We went to the camp at Greenham Common.
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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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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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The teachers at my school were quite often card-carrying members of the Labour Party and it just was not part of the culture to approve of what the government was doing.
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If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.
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I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
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They all want us to get Brexit done so that we can begin negotiations and forge new relationships that will open up new markets for British businesses, create jobs and attract new investment.
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And I observe that for the vast majority of the Labour government we had a top rate of 40 per cent income tax. It’s now higher, and I think we should look to get to a simpler, lower tax system.
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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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Taking control of our laws border and money, run not by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Brussels but by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Britain. That ladies and gentlemen is a dream worth fighting for.
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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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Leaving the European Union really does give us a chance as a country to become more outward-looking, to become more competitive, and to deepen our links with our partners right across the world.
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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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When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme.
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It’s absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.
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