“I’m very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.”

The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.

Trade is critical to us all – it ensures we have what we need to live, that the NHS gets the equipment it needs to save lives, and that developing countries can prosper.

I am quite bolshy, sometimes. I like to get my own way, lets put it like that.

We’ve been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs.

We are working hard at home and on the international stage to further identify the problems on the horizon and to ensure we reboot trade post-Covid-19.

I was interested in the ideas – freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That’s why I became a Tory.

They all want us to get Brexit done so that we can begin negotiations and forge new relationships that will open up new markets for British businesses, create jobs and attract new investment.

As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.

I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.

People want to start businesses because it’s a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.

Choice is a national instinct. This capitalist bedrock of our prosperity and security is threatened by a Labour Party that wants to overthrow the whole system.

The teachers at my school were quite often card-carrying members of the Labour Party and it just was not part of the culture to approve of what the government was doing.

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.

I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.

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.

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.

A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.

Being legally permitted to use an alternative cancer therapy is the problem

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn’t come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

More than anything I love being on stage and performing

You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Faith is personal if it’s to be real.

If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.