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.
LIZ TRUSSAs Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
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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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I think every woman in this country will understand what it means to be mansplained to. It happens in everyday life – you know, if you go into a shop, or you’re talking about finance.
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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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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.
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In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
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I’m a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.
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We had meetings throughout the day and the girls had to play outside the office while mummy went to ‘boring’ meetings.
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Election campaigns always have to have colour and excitement and interest.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.
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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.
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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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I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.
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Women are not going to start businesses because we tell them we don’t have enough people of a certain group.
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