Women are not going to start businesses because we tell them we don’t have enough people of a certain group.
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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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I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.
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From 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.
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I feel I’ve come home at the Treasury.
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Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
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We need to give people another option from 16-18. Not everyone is going to want to become a rocket scientist but that doesn’t mean that maths isn’t extremely useful.
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The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it sells.
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One of my roles was as a commercial manager for liquid natural gas shipping, project economics and contract negotiation.
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I 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.
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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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I’m very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.
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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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People won’t want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain.
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I’m a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.
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I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
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The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.
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Election campaigns always have to have colour and excitement and interest.
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Except this time, there will be no choice and nowhere to turn when things go wrong.
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Leaving the European Union really does give us a chance as a country to become more outward-looking, to become more competitive, and to deepen our links with our partners right across the world.
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Our public services and the great people who work in them are improving lives.
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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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Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.
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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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If John McDonnell nationalised whole industries, they would be quickly taken over by bureaucrats more concerned about their careers than about customers.
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The teachers at my school were quite often card-carrying members of the Labour Party and it just was not part of the culture to approve of what the government was doing.
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I want to challenge those who aim to block change, stop development and restrict success. I want to challenge the caution that strangles risk-takers and go-getters.
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