“Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.”

I have seen too many chaotic settings, where children are running around. There’s no sense of purpose.

It’s absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.

When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.

The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.

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.

I am quite bolshy, sometimes. I like to get my own way, lets put it like that.

We’ve been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs.

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.

I was interested in the ideas – freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That’s why I became a Tory.

They all want us to get Brexit done so that we can begin negotiations and forge new relationships that will open up new markets for British businesses, create jobs and attract new investment.

As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.

I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.

People want to start businesses because it’s a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.

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.

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.

Nobody wants to be in a room or their business to be funded because they’re a woman. They don’t want to be discriminated against because they’re a woman.