I am delighted to be at the heart of this team of radical reformers in Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Nick Boles and many others. It’s a team I believe will deliver the change Britain needs.
LIZ TRUSSAs Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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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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I’m proud to say like many of my colleagues in the Conservative Party I am fully behind Theresa May’s Brexit plans.
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I was interested in the ideas – freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That’s why I became a Tory.
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If we just had an election which is a kind of desiccated calculation, obviously I think the Conservatives have the best economic plans, but it is about more than that. It is about the overall person.
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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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I 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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In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we’ve just got all-or-nothing.
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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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And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.
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Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial.
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I didn’t become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country…
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Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
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In London the average person is paying 50 per cent of their income on rent. Just think how much better off people would feel if that number was a lot lower.
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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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