Election campaigns always have to have colour and excitement and interest.
LIZ TRUSSEconomics and finance is the final frontier for women; it’s the last thing they will conquer because controlling finance is at the heart of everything in government.
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The free market is fundamentally humane and democratic, driven by ideas and millions of individual choices about what to do with our money which defy those who benefit from the status quo.
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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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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’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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I want people to buy British because it’s the tastiest food and the most exciting food.
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Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
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When we’ve looked into trying to find a full daycare place in London it’s just been impossible. You just cannot get one.
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We had meetings throughout the day and the girls had to play outside the office while mummy went to ‘boring’ meetings.
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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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In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
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I’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.
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People want to start businesses because it’s a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.
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It’s almost 10 years since the 2008 crisis, but we all still remember the consequences of ignoring threats to the public finances.
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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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Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us all paying higher taxes and the economy in tatters.
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I agree. It is vital we keep taxes low and the size of the state in check, to allow people to spend more of their own money.
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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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Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
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Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.
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We are fighting a Labour Party whose avowed enemy is capitalist bosses, whose instinct is to see income as a common pool resource, and whose leading figures find profit morally repugnant.
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Except this time, there will be no choice and nowhere to turn when things go wrong.
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From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US – the world wants what Britain has to sell.
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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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When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.
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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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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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