When I travel around the country, I see great companies with new ideas and a can-do attitude. But too often they are in hand-to-hand and pen-to-paper combat with officialdom.
LIZ TRUSSLeaving 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.
More Liz Truss Quotes
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Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
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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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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 have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.
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In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
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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 want people to buy British because it’s the tastiest food and the most exciting food.
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People want to know about the details of politicians, what they like doing in their spare time, about their families. I think that’s human.
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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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Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial.
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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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And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.
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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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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
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