It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.
LIZ TRUSSIt means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.
LIZ TRUSSFrom 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.
LIZ TRUSSI 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.
LIZ TRUSSIn other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we’ve just got all-or-nothing.
LIZ TRUSSKitchen-table start-ups and local entrepreneurs will find they have major new opportunities opened to them, as they gain easier and quicker access for their goods and services into one of the world’s largest markets.
LIZ TRUSSPeople want to know about the details of politicians, what they like doing in their spare time, about their families. I think that’s human.
LIZ TRUSSIt 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.
LIZ TRUSSAnd after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.
LIZ TRUSSIf 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.
LIZ TRUSSIf John McDonnell nationalised whole industries, they would be quickly taken over by bureaucrats more concerned about their careers than about customers.
LIZ TRUSSThe 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.
LIZ TRUSSWe 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.
LIZ TRUSSI think every woman in this country will understand what it means to be mansplained to. It happens in everyday life – you know, if you go into a shop, or you’re talking about finance.
LIZ TRUSSBritain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
LIZ TRUSSThey 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.
LIZ TRUSSI’d love the job of Chancellor one day.
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