I don’t like tokenism. I don’t like the idea that somebody should just appear at a press conference or in a media interview because they are a woman.
LIZ TRUSSI’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.
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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 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.
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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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We are fighting a Labour Party whose avowed enemy is capitalist bosses, whose instinct is to see income as a common pool resource, and whose leading figures find profit morally repugnant.
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The young people I meet want more freedom – to start firms, keep more of what they earn, and move to areas with opportunities without paying a fortune.
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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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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
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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’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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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.
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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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Brexit has energised millions of people, young and old, to take part in our democracy and that’s a great thing.
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Free-flow play is not compulsory, but there is a belief across lots of nurseries that it is.
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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 believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.
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