I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
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.
More Liz Truss Quotes
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I have to admit I don’t like pizza. I love it. And I am prepared to do literally anything to get my hands on a slice.
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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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Tyrrells crisps are one of the top sellers in France. I don’t know if you’ve tasted crisps in other countries.
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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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When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
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I admire Peter Mandleson’s chutzpah and the way he transformed the Labour party but not his dubious ideas about Europe and industrial policy.
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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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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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No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.
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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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Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
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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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From better access to American markets for our beef and lamb farmers, to cutting tariffs on dairy products like cheese, which are up to 17 per cent, there are significant opportunities for UK farming.
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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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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 want to see popular free-market Conservatism where barriers are broken down, people have got more opportunities but keep more of their own money.
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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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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’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.
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Our public services and the great people who work in them are improving lives.
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Women need to be less squeamish about making money.
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Let’s cut the top rates of stamp duty to enable more movement to take place and also looking at the broader tax reform, simplifying our tax 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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