I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
LIZ TRUSSThe teachers at my school were quite often card-carrying members of the Labour Party and it just was not part of the culture to approve of what the government was doing.
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When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.
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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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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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In London the average person is paying 50 per cent of their income on rent. Just think how much better off people would feel if that number was a lot lower.
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Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world.
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And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn’t say the ones at my school were less capable. They could’ve been there.
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In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we’ve just got all-or-nothing.
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I think we’ve got caught up in the weeds of Brexit, and… the approach has been to try and compromise and split the difference. And that to me is not what Brexit is about.
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I try to be as clear and straight as I can in what I am putting forward. I think people are fed up with politicians where there are lots of bland lines to take.
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I’m a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.
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What I saw when I went to France was that really good quality education and childcare is seen there as a completely normal part of everyday life.
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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 want people to buy British because it’s the tastiest food and the most exciting food.
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Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
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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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