As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
LIZ TRUSSWe spent a lot of time talking about politics at home. We went to the camp at Greenham Common.
More Liz Truss Quotes
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Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.
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I feel I’ve come home at the Treasury.
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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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Every pound that comes into the Exchequer was earned by someone through hard work, and could have been used for a new car, a holiday or a treat for the children.
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When I travel around the country, I see great companies with new ideas and a can-do attitude. But too often they are in hand-to-hand and pen-to-paper combat with officialdom.
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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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What I saw when I went to France was that really good quality education and childcare is seen there as a completely normal part of everyday life.
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I had never met anyone of my own age that was a Tory, so going to university and seeing people who were Tories and who believed in what I believed in was an eye-opener.
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And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.
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I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
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In London the average person is paying 50 per cent of their income on rent. Just think how much better off people would feel if that number was a lot lower.
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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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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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As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese.
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I love Britain. It really worries me, the prospect of Ed Miliband propped up by Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP and what that could do to our country. It’s absolutely right that we highlight to voters that potential risk.
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