Kitchen-table start-ups and local entrepreneurs will find they have major new opportunities opened to them, as they gain easier and quicker access for their goods and services into one of the world’s largest markets.
LIZ TRUSSOur future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.
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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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The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.
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I’m very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.
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Election campaigns always have to have colour and excitement and interest.
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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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Trade is critical to us all – it ensures we have what we need to live, that the NHS gets the equipment it needs to save lives, and that developing countries can prosper.
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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 campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.
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It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.
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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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In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we’ve just got all-or-nothing.
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I’m saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.
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I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
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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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We spent a lot of time talking about politics at home. We went to the camp at Greenham Common.
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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.
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As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese.
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The US is our largest trading partner and increasing transatlantic trade can help our economies bounce back from the economic challenge posed by coronavirus.
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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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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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Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
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With Anglo-American capitalism increasingly under attack, those who believe in the power of free markets and enterprise to create wealth and social progress must stand up and be counted and champion our way of life.
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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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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
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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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