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.
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.
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Our aim should be to give the British people greater control of their lives in all regards.
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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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Britain and the US remain the Wild West for ideas, where pioneers push each other towards ever greater heights in the white heat of free enterprise.
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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 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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It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.
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I’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.
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When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.
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Brexit has energised millions of people, young and old, to take part in our democracy and that’s a great thing.
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People want to start businesses because it’s a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.
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When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme.
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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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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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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 Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
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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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Leaving the European Union really does give us a chance as a country to become more outward-looking, to become more competitive, and to deepen our links with our partners right across the world.
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I’d love the job of Chancellor one day.
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All of us in Parliament now have a responsibility to get on with the process of leaving the EU and securing a more prosperous future for Britain as an open, global, trading nation.
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No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.
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Kitchen-table start-ups and local entrepreneurs will find they have major new opportunities opened to them, as they gain easier and quicker access for their goods and services into one of the world’s largest markets.
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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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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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I want people to buy British because it’s the tastiest food and the most exciting food.
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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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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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