I admire Peter Mandleson’s chutzpah and the way he transformed the Labour party but not his dubious ideas about Europe and industrial policy.
LIZ TRUSSPeople want to start businesses because it’s a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.
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I’d love the job of Chancellor one day.
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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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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
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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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Taking 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.
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I don’t like tokenism. I don’t like the idea that somebody should just appear at a press conference or in a media interview because they are a woman.
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Women need to be less squeamish about making money.
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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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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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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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We’ve been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs.
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Election campaigns always have to have colour and excitement and interest.
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Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
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I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
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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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