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LIZ TRUSSParliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
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Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.
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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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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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Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
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I love Britain. It really worries me, the prospect of Ed Miliband propped up by Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP and what that could do to our country. It’s absolutely right that we highlight to voters that potential risk.
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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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I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.
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I’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.
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What I saw when I went to France was that really good quality education and childcare is seen there as a completely normal part of everyday life.
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From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US – the world wants what Britain has to sell.
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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’ve been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs.
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Schools receive 12% more per student for those doing media studies or psychology than they do for those doing maths. You could change that around, made a premium on doing maths.
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It’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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I am quite bolshy, sometimes. I like to get my own way, lets put it like that.
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I had never met anyone of my own age that was a Tory, so going to university and seeing people who were Tories and who believed in what I believed in was an eye-opener.
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Our aim should be to give the British people greater control of their lives in all regards.
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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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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.
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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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I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.
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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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The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.
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And I observe that for the vast majority of the Labour government we had a top rate of 40 per cent income tax. It’s now higher, and I think we should look to get to a simpler, lower tax system.
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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 think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
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