People want to know about the details of politicians, what they like doing in their spare time, about their families. I think that’s human.
LIZ TRUSSAll of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial.
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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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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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I’d love the job of Chancellor one day.
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I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
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It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.
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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 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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I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.
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I’m saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.
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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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From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US – the world wants what Britain has to sell.
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Election campaigns always have to have colour and excitement and interest.
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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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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.
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