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

I think every woman in this country will understand what it means to be mansplained to. It happens in everyday life – you know, if you go into a shop, or you’re talking about finance.

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.

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.

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

The chief merit of language is clearness.

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.