Brexit has energised millions of people, young and old, to take part in our democracy and that’s a great thing.
LIZ TRUSSAll of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
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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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Women need to be less squeamish about making money.
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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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When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.
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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’m a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.
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It’s a merger of home life and work life. They aren’t that separate, I must confess, and my daughters know an awful lot about childcare reform now because of it.
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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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If 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.
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Britain is the ideas factory of the world and has huge potential to benefit from the next technological revolution.
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We 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.
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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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Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us all paying higher taxes and the economy in tatters.
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Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.
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