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 TRUSSOne of my roles was as a commercial manager for liquid natural gas shipping, project economics and contract negotiation.
LIZ TRUSSNobody 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.
LIZ TRUSSI’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.
LIZ TRUSSIn Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
LIZ TRUSSI 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.
LIZ TRUSSI am quite bolshy, sometimes. I like to get my own way, lets put it like that.
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.
LIZ TRUSSI campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.
LIZ TRUSSPeople want to start businesses because it’s a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.
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 TRUSSPeople won’t want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain.
LIZ TRUSSWe 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.
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 TRUSSElection campaigns always have to have colour and excitement and interest.
LIZ TRUSSWomen are not going to start businesses because we tell them we don’t have enough people of a certain group.
LIZ TRUSS