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.
LIZ TRUSSI’m a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.
More Liz Truss Quotes
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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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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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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 want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.
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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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From the coffee bars of Camden to the gin joints of Norfolk – across Britain, a revolution is brewing. And no, it’s not John McDonnell’s bitter socialist hooch. It’s a generation growing up with an entirely different view of the world – free thinking, optimistic and hungry for success.
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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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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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Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.
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And I observe that for the vast majority of the Labour government we had a top rate of 40 per cent income tax. It’s now higher, and I think we should look to get to a simpler, lower tax system.
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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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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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We spent a lot of time talking about politics at home. We went to the camp at Greenham Common.
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When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications.
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I have seen too many chaotic settings, where children are running around. There’s no sense of purpose.
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A UK-Australia trade deal won’t just be a good thing, it’ll be a great thing, for our businesses, for our consumers, for our workers and for our two great countries.
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Except this time, there will be no choice and nowhere to turn when things go wrong.
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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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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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I want to challenge those who aim to block change, stop development and restrict success. I want to challenge the caution that strangles risk-takers and go-getters.
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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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If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.
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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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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
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People want to start businesses because it’s a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.
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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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