Britain and the US remain the Wild West for ideas, where pioneers push each other towards ever greater heights in the white heat of free enterprise.
LIZ TRUSSIt’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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Except this time, there will be no choice and nowhere to turn when things go wrong.
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I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
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Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have made no secret of their desire to stamp out individualism and enterprise.
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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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If we just had an election which is a kind of desiccated calculation, obviously I think the Conservatives have the best economic plans, but it is about more than that. It is about the overall person.
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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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Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world.
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It is right that people and businesses retain as much of their own money as possible so that they have the freedom to innovate and invest in the future.
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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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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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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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I am quite bolshy, sometimes. I like to get my own way, lets put it like that.
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If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
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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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