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.
LIZ TRUSSPeople want to know about the details of politicians, what they like doing in their spare time, about their families. I think that’s human.
More Liz Truss Quotes
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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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I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.
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I feel I’ve come home at the Treasury.
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I’d love the job of Chancellor one day.
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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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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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I’m a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.
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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 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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I am quite bolshy, sometimes. I like to get my own way, lets put it like that.
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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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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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I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.
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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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Tyrrells crisps are one of the top sellers in France. I don’t know if you’ve tasted crisps in other countries.
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