Brexit has energised millions of people, young and old, to take part in our democracy and that’s a great thing.
LIZ TRUSSIn order to retain our position as the dynamic duo of the world, it’s vital that in the UK and US we keep opportunities open for new people and new ideas. And we can never allow our economies to get furred up.
More Liz Truss Quotes
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I was interested in the ideas – freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That’s why I became a Tory.
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In London the average person is paying 50 per cent of their income on rent. Just think how much better off people would feel if that number was a lot lower.
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Except this time, there will be no choice and nowhere to turn when things go wrong.
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Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial.
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I want to see popular free-market Conservatism where barriers are broken down, people have got more opportunities but keep more of their own money.
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Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
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Our public services and the great people who work in them are improving lives.
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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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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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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 feel I’ve come home at the Treasury.
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I’m a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.
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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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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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We need to give people another option from 16-18. Not everyone is going to want to become a rocket scientist but that doesn’t mean that maths isn’t extremely useful.
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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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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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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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I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.
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Economics and finance is the final frontier for women; it’s the last thing they will conquer because controlling finance is at the heart of everything in government.
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But I really think British crisps are world leaders. I went to China and they told me there is only one type of potato available there.
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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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I’m very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.
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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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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 believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.
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