We had meetings throughout the day and the girls had to play outside the office while mummy went to ‘boring’ meetings.
LIZ TRUSSIt’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.
More Liz Truss Quotes
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The young people I meet want more freedom – to start firms, keep more of what they earn, and move to areas with opportunities without paying a fortune.
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I’m saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.
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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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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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Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial.
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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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People won’t want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain.
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When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.
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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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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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Election campaigns always have to have colour and excitement and interest.
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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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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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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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