The US is our largest trading partner and increasing transatlantic trade can help our economies bounce back from the economic challenge posed by coronavirus.
LIZ TRUSSI’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.
More Liz Truss Quotes
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Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
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And I observe that for the vast majority of the Labour government we had a top rate of 40 per cent income tax. It’s now higher, and I think we should look to get to a simpler, lower tax system.
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From the coffee bars of Camden to the gin joints of Norfolk – across Britain, a revolution is brewing. And no, it’s not John McDonnell’s bitter socialist hooch. It’s a generation growing up with an entirely different view of the world – free thinking, optimistic and hungry for success.
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I didn’t become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country…
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I hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things.
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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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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.
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I’d love the job of Chancellor one day.
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I try to be as clear and straight as I can in what I am putting forward. I think people are fed up with politicians where there are lots of bland lines to take.
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I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.
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I agree. It is vital we keep taxes low and the size of the state in check, to allow people to spend more of their own money.
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I’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.
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When I travel around the country, I see great companies with new ideas and a can-do attitude. But too often they are in hand-to-hand and pen-to-paper combat with officialdom.
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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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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 want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
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And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn’t say the ones at my school were less capable. They could’ve been there.
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If we just had an election which is a kind of desiccated calculation, obviously I think the Conservatives have the best economic plans, but it is about more than that. It is about the overall person.
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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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I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.
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The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it sells.
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It is right that people and businesses retain as much of their own money as possible so that they have the freedom to innovate and invest in the future.
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Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us all paying higher taxes and the economy in tatters.
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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 want to see popular free-market Conservatism where barriers are broken down, people have got more opportunities but keep more of their own money.
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