I am quite bolshy, sometimes. I like to get my own way, lets put it like that.
LIZ TRUSSIn other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we’ve just got all-or-nothing.
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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 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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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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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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No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.
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I 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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Free-flow play is not compulsory, but there is a belief across lots of nurseries that it is.
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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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I admire Peter Mandleson’s chutzpah and the way he transformed the Labour party but not his dubious ideas about Europe and industrial policy.
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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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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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It’s a merger of home life and work life. They aren’t that separate, I must confess, and my daughters know an awful lot about childcare reform now because of it.
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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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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 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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