We spent a lot of time talking about politics at home. We went to the camp at Greenham Common.
LIZ TRUSSI 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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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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I am quite bolshy, sometimes. I like to get my own way, lets put it like that.
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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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When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme.
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Britain is the home of economic freedom, with liberty guaranteed by the independence of our state institutions, and an absence of corruption assured by transparency.
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It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.
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I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.
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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’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.
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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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People won’t want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain.
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And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn’t say the ones at my school were less capable. They could’ve been there.
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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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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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It’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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