I hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things.
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I admire Peter Mandleson’s chutzpah and the way he transformed the Labour party but not his dubious ideas about Europe and industrial policy.
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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.
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All of us in Parliament now have a responsibility to get on with the process of leaving the EU and securing a more prosperous future for Britain as an open, global, trading nation.
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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
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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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In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
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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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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
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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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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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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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And I observe that for the vast majority of the Labour government we had a top rate of 40 per cent income tax. It’s now higher, and I think we should look to get to a simpler, lower tax system.
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We are working hard at home and on the international stage to further identify the problems on the horizon and to ensure we reboot trade post-Covid-19.
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I am quite bolshy, sometimes. I like to get my own way, lets put it like that.
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If John McDonnell nationalised whole industries, they would be quickly taken over by bureaucrats more concerned about their careers than about customers.
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I was interested in the ideas – freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That’s why I became a Tory.
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And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.
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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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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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The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.
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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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When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications.
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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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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.
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Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have made no secret of their desire to stamp out individualism and enterprise.
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