No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.
LIZ TRUSSIf I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.
More Liz Truss Quotes
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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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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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If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.
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I want to see popular free-market Conservatism where barriers are broken down, people have got more opportunities but keep more of their own money.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
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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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Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial.
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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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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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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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The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.
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Traditionally, Conservatives have argued that low taxes are a route to self-determination.
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Election campaigns always have to have colour and excitement and interest.
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In order to retain our position as the dynamic duo of the world, it’s vital that in the UK and US we keep opportunities open for new people and new ideas. And we can never allow our economies to get furred up.
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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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They all want us to get Brexit done so that we can begin negotiations and forge new relationships that will open up new markets for British businesses, create jobs and attract new investment.
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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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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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It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.
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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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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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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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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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Britain is the ideas factory of the world and has huge potential to benefit from the next technological revolution.
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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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I’m very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.
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