As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.
LIZ TRUSSAs Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
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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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Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial.
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Britain and the US remain the Wild West for ideas, where pioneers push each other towards ever greater heights in the white heat of free enterprise.
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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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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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When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.
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I admire Peter Mandleson’s chutzpah and the way he transformed the Labour party but not his dubious ideas about Europe and industrial policy.
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People want to start businesses because it’s a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.
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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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Economics and finance is the final frontier for women; it’s the last thing they will conquer because controlling finance is at the heart of everything in government.
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Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
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I want to challenge those who aim to block change, stop development and restrict success. I want to challenge the caution that strangles risk-takers and go-getters.
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In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
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