It’s almost 10 years since the 2008 crisis, but we all still remember the consequences of ignoring threats to the public finances.
LIZ TRUSSAll 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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Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
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With Anglo-American capitalism increasingly under attack, those who believe in the power of free markets and enterprise to create wealth and social progress must stand up and be counted and champion our way of life.
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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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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 agree. It is vital we keep taxes low and the size of the state in check, to allow people to spend more of their own money.
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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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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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Britain is the ideas factory of the world and has huge potential to benefit from the next technological revolution.
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Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial.
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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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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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In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we’ve just got all-or-nothing.
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When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.
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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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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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