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.
LIZ TRUSSWhen 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.
LIZ TRUSSI am quite bolshy, sometimes. I like to get my own way, lets put it like that.
LIZ TRUSSFrom 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.
LIZ TRUSSI 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.
LIZ TRUSSI hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things.
LIZ TRUSSI’m proud to say like many of my colleagues in the Conservative Party I am fully behind Theresa May’s Brexit plans.
LIZ TRUSSTaking 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.
LIZ TRUSSBut I really think British crisps are world leaders. I went to China and they told me there is only one type of potato available there.
LIZ TRUSSI want to see popular free-market Conservatism where barriers are broken down, people have got more opportunities but keep more of their own money.
LIZ TRUSSAs Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.
LIZ TRUSSLet’s cut the top rates of stamp duty to enable more movement to take place and also looking at the broader tax reform, simplifying our tax system.
LIZ TRUSSIf John McDonnell nationalised whole industries, they would be quickly taken over by bureaucrats more concerned about their careers than about customers.
LIZ TRUSSI think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
LIZ TRUSSI’d love the job of Chancellor one day.
LIZ TRUSSWhen men call women ambitious they mean pushy.
LIZ TRUSSIt’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.
LIZ TRUSS