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.
LIZ TRUSSChoice is a national instinct. This capitalist bedrock of our prosperity and security is threatened by a Labour Party that wants to overthrow the whole system.
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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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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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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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Schools receive 12% more per student for those doing media studies or psychology than they do for those doing maths. You could change that around, made a premium on doing maths.
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I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
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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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When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme.
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Economics and finance is the final frontier for women; it’s the last thing they will conquer because controlling finance is at the heart of everything in government.
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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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Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
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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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Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.
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I agree. It is vital we keep taxes low and the size of the state in check, to allow people to spend more of their own money.
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Britain and the US remain the Wild West for ideas, where pioneers push each other towards ever greater heights in the white heat of free enterprise.
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Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial.
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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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But 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.
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Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
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Kitchen-table start-ups and local entrepreneurs will find they have major new opportunities opened to them, as they gain easier and quicker access for their goods and services into one of the world’s largest markets.
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From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US – the world wants what Britain has to sell.
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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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We want a fully comprehensive trade deal that reflects our deep, ongoing relationship, the friendship between our two countries.
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When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.
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I’m proud to say like many of my colleagues in the Conservative Party I am fully behind Theresa May’s Brexit plans.
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Leaving the European Union really does give us a chance as a country to become more outward-looking, to become more competitive, and to deepen our links with our partners right across the world.
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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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