I feel I’m fortunate compared with a lot of parents in being able to afford a nanny but, you know, it’s expensive.
LIZ TRUSSWe spent a lot of time talking about politics at home. We went to the camp at Greenham Common.
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I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.
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Britain is the home of economic freedom, with liberty guaranteed by the independence of our state institutions, and an absence of corruption assured by transparency.
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From 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.
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What you notice in French nurseries is just how calm they are. All of their classes are structured and led by teachers. It’s a requirement.
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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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It’s absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.
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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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When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications.
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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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Britain and the US remain the Wild West for ideas, where pioneers push each other towards ever greater heights in the white heat of free enterprise.
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I am quite bolshy, sometimes. I like to get my own way, lets put it like that.
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People won’t want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain.
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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 have to admit I don’t like pizza. I love it. And I am prepared to do literally anything to get my hands on a slice.
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Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.
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