Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world.
LIZ TRUSSWomen are not going to start businesses because we tell them we don’t have enough people of a certain group.
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The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.
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It’s vital to our economic mission that we fight vested interests, and make sure our country’s opportunities are open to everyone – big or small, north or south, man or woman.
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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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I try to be as clear and straight as I can in what I am putting forward. I think people are fed up with politicians where there are lots of bland lines to take.
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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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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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We’ve been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs.
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Free-flow play is not compulsory, but there is a belief across lots of nurseries that it is.
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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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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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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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I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.
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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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I am delighted to be at the heart of this team of radical reformers in Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Nick Boles and many others. It’s a team I believe will deliver the change Britain needs.
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I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.
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Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial.
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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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When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications.
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In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we’ve just got all-or-nothing.
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Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
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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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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 was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
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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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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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We want a fully comprehensive trade deal that reflects our deep, ongoing relationship, the friendship between our two countries.
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