I admire Peter Mandleson’s chutzpah and the way he transformed the Labour party but not his dubious ideas about Europe and industrial policy.
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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We don’t know what’s around the corner – and we must do everything to ensure we get our country’s debts down, building our resilience so we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past.
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If we just had an election which is a kind of desiccated calculation, obviously I think the Conservatives have the best economic plans, but it is about more than that. It is about the overall person.
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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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One of my roles was as a commercial manager for liquid natural gas shipping, project economics and contract negotiation.
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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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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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Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.
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What I saw when I went to France was that really good quality education and childcare is seen there as a completely normal part of everyday life.
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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 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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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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Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial.
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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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Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
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