All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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.
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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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We want a fully comprehensive trade deal that reflects our deep, ongoing relationship, the friendship between our two countries.
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Traditionally, Conservatives have argued that low taxes are a route to self-determination.
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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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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.
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Britain is the home of economic freedom, with liberty guaranteed by the independence of our state institutions, and an absence of corruption assured by transparency.
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Nobody wants to be in a room or their business to be funded because they’re a woman. They don’t want to be discriminated against because they’re a woman.
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In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
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Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
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I feel I’ve come home at the Treasury.
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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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I’m proud to say like many of my colleagues in the Conservative Party I am fully behind Theresa May’s Brexit plans.
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I’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.
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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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The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.
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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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Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.
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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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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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All of us in Parliament now have a responsibility to get on with the process of leaving the EU and securing a more prosperous future for Britain as an open, global, trading nation.
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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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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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When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.
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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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From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US – the world wants what Britain has to sell.
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