We had meetings throughout the day and the girls had to play outside the office while mummy went to ‘boring’ meetings.
LIZ TRUSSFrom 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.
More Liz Truss Quotes
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Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
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I have seen too many chaotic settings, where children are running around. There’s no sense of purpose.
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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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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.
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From better access to American markets for our beef and lamb farmers, to cutting tariffs on dairy products like cheese, which are up to 17 per cent, there are significant opportunities for UK farming.
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If John McDonnell nationalised whole industries, they would be quickly taken over by bureaucrats more concerned about their careers than about customers.
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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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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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From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US – the world wants what Britain has to sell.
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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.
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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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Free-flow play is not compulsory, but there is a belief across lots of nurseries that it is.
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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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A UK-Australia trade deal won’t just be a good thing, it’ll be a great thing, for our businesses, for our consumers, for our workers and for our two great countries.
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If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.
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