“Choice 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.”

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.

People won’t want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain.

The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it sells.

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.

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.

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.

It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.

Britain is the ideas factory of the world and has huge potential to benefit from the next technological revolution.

I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.

The young people I meet want more freedom – to start firms, keep more of what they earn, and move to areas with opportunities without paying a fortune.

I’d love the job of Chancellor one day.

I had never met anyone of my own age that was a Tory, so going to university and seeing people who were Tories and who believed in what I believed in was an eye-opener.

In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.

No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.

Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world.

We had meetings throughout the day and the girls had to play outside the office while mummy went to ‘boring’ meetings.

And we have never observed modern finance-capitalist systems operating over a sustained period at this kind of credit-to-GDP leverage ratio.

You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

Mad was wide open. Bill loved it, and he was a capitalist Republican. I loved it, and I was a liberal Democrat.

We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it’s the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

This isn’t a stable system.