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.
LIZ TRUSSIt’s vital to our economic mission that we fight vested interests, and make sure our country’s opportunities are open to everyone – big or small, north or south, man or woman.
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People want to start businesses because it’s a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.
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It’s absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.
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I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
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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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We have lots of roadside stands in Norfolk where you can just pick up vegetables that people have grown in their garden and put the money in a pot.
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We’re trendsetters, first to welcome brilliant inventions into our lives, from the microwave meal to Instagram.
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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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I don’t like tokenism. I don’t like the idea that somebody should just appear at a press conference or in a media interview because they are a woman.
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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.
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Leaving the European Union really does give us a chance as a country to become more outward-looking, to become more competitive, and to deepen our links with our partners right across the world.
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Women need to be less squeamish about making money.
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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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I think we’ve got caught up in the weeds of Brexit, and… the approach has been to try and compromise and split the difference. And that to me is not what Brexit is about.
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In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
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Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
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Traditionally, Conservatives have argued that low taxes are a route to self-determination.
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When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme.
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No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.
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One of my roles was as a commercial manager for liquid natural gas shipping, project economics and contract negotiation.
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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.
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All 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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What you notice in French nurseries is just how calm they are. All of their classes are structured and led by teachers. It’s a requirement.
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Our public services and the great people who work in them are improving lives.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
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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.
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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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