I was interested in the ideas – freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That’s why I became a Tory.
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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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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I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
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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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What you notice in French nurseries is just how calm they are. All of their classes are structured and led by teachers. It’s a requirement.
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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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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’d love the job of Chancellor one day.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.
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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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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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Election campaigns always have to have colour and excitement and interest.
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But I really think British crisps are world leaders. I went to China and they told me there is only one type of potato available there.
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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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We are working hard at home and on the international stage to further identify the problems on the horizon and to ensure we reboot trade post-Covid-19.
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When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications.
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