I’d love the job of Chancellor one day.
LIZ TRUSSAs Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese.
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It’s vital to our economic mission that we fight vested interests, and make sure our country’s opportunities are open to everyone – big or small, north or south, man or woman.
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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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It’s absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.
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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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The fact that Australians want to come and live and work in Britain, and Brits want to come and live and work in Australia.
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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 was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
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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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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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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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When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme.
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I think we’ve got caught up in the weeds of Brexit, and… the approach has been to try and compromise and split the difference. And that to me is not what Brexit is about.
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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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It’s a merger of home life and work life. They aren’t that separate, I must confess, and my daughters know an awful lot about childcare reform now because of it.
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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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