I’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.
LIZ TRUSSCoronavirus 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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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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I’m very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.
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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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We want a fully comprehensive trade deal that reflects our deep, ongoing relationship, the friendship between our two 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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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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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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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 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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Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.
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The fact that Australians want to come and live and work in Britain, and Brits want to come and live and work in Australia.
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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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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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I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.
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Choice is a national instinct. This capitalist bedrock of our prosperity and security is threatened by a Labour Party that wants to overthrow the whole system.
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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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I’m proud to say like many of my colleagues in the Conservative Party I am fully behind Theresa May’s Brexit plans.
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I want people to buy British because it’s the tastiest food and the most exciting food.
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Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.
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People want to start businesses because it’s a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.
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If John McDonnell nationalised whole industries, they would be quickly taken over by bureaucrats more concerned about their careers than about customers.
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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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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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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 want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.
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