With Anglo-American capitalism increasingly under attack, those who believe in the power of free markets and enterprise to create wealth and social progress must stand up and be counted and champion our way of life.
LIZ TRUSSWhen I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications.
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I hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things.
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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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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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As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese.
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Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have made no secret of their desire to stamp out individualism and enterprise.
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All of us in Parliament now have a responsibility to get on with the process of leaving the EU and securing a more prosperous future for Britain as an open, global, trading nation.
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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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We don’t know what’s around the corner – and we must do everything to ensure we get our country’s debts down, building our resilience so we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past.
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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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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.
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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 free market is fundamentally humane and democratic, driven by ideas and millions of individual choices about what to do with our money which defy those who benefit from the status quo.
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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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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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Taking control of our laws border and money, run not by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Brussels but by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Britain. That ladies and gentlemen is a dream worth fighting for.
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We spent a lot of time talking about politics at home. We went to the camp at Greenham Common.
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I have seen too many chaotic settings, where children are running around. There’s no sense of purpose.
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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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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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We’re trendsetters, first to welcome brilliant inventions into our lives, from the microwave meal to Instagram.
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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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I didn’t become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country…
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I feel I’ve come home at the Treasury.
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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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We are working hard at home and on the international stage to further identify the problems on the horizon and to ensure we reboot trade post-Covid-19.
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I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
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