And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.
LIZ TRUSSThe US is our largest trading partner and increasing transatlantic trade can help our economies bounce back from the economic challenge posed by coronavirus.
More Liz Truss Quotes
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All of us in Parliament now have a responsibility to get on with the process of leaving the EU and securing a more prosperous future for Britain as an open, global, trading nation.
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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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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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As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese.
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We had meetings throughout the day and the girls had to play outside the office while mummy went to ‘boring’ meetings.
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Britain is the ideas factory of the world and has huge potential to benefit from the next technological revolution.
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Kitchen-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.
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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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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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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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We’ve been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs.
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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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I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.
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When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications.
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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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Economics and finance is the final frontier for women; it’s the last thing they will conquer because controlling finance is at the heart of everything in government.
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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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Trade is critical to us all – it ensures we have what we need to live, that the NHS gets the equipment it needs to save lives, and that developing countries can prosper.
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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 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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Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world.
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We have lots of roadside stands in Norfolk where you can just pick up vegetables that people have grown in their garden and put the money in a pot.
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Traditionally, Conservatives have argued that low taxes are a route to self-determination.
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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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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 was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
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