In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we’ve just got all-or-nothing.
LIZ TRUSSI 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 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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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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No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.
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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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People won’t want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain.
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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 hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things.
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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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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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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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If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.
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In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
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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.
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The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it sells.
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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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