“As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.”

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 after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.

Britain is the home of economic freedom, with liberty guaranteed by the independence of our state institutions, and an absence of corruption assured by transparency.

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.

I 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.

Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have made no secret of their desire to stamp out individualism and enterprise.

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.

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

ISIS and Iran have declared war on America, and we need a commander in chief who will do everything necessary to keep our children safe.

When you’re the commander in chief, you’re the commander in chief on day one. You don’t get like a six-month grace period.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Well, the most important thing a president will be is commander-in-chief. And that requires having an understanding of the complex issues on foreign policy. Foreign policy presents us often with hard choices, not black or white choices.

A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.

As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.