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 TRUSSI was interested in the ideas – freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That’s why I became a Tory.
More Liz Truss Quotes
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I didn’t become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country…
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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.
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Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world.
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It’s vital to our economic mission that we fight vested interests, and make sure our country’s opportunities are open to everyone – big or small, north or south, man or woman.
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I want people to buy British because it’s the tastiest food and the most exciting food.
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The US is our largest trading partner and increasing transatlantic trade can help our economies bounce back from the economic challenge posed by coronavirus.
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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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When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme.
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Britain is the ideas factory of the world and has huge potential to benefit from the next technological revolution.
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The teachers at my school were quite often card-carrying members of the Labour Party and it just was not part of the culture to approve of what the government was doing.
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I want to see popular free-market Conservatism where barriers are broken down, people have got more opportunities but keep more of their own money.
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Let’s cut the top rates of stamp duty to enable more movement to take place and also looking at the broader tax reform, simplifying our tax system.
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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.
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I want to challenge those who aim to block change, stop development and restrict success. I want to challenge the caution that strangles risk-takers and go-getters.
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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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It’s almost 10 years since the 2008 crisis, but we all still remember the consequences of ignoring threats to the public finances.
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Nobody wants to be in a room or their business to be funded because they’re a woman. They don’t want to be discriminated against because they’re a woman.
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The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of 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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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.
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One of my roles was as a commercial manager for liquid natural gas shipping, project economics and contract negotiation.
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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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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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It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.
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Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.
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