Trade is critical to us all – it ensures we have what we need to live, that the NHS gets the equipment it needs to save lives, and that developing countries can prosper.
LIZ TRUSSTrade is critical to us all – it ensures we have what we need to live, that the NHS gets the equipment it needs to save lives, and that developing countries can prosper.
LIZ TRUSSParliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
LIZ TRUSSI 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.
LIZ TRUSSIf John McDonnell nationalised whole industries, they would be quickly taken over by bureaucrats more concerned about their careers than about customers.
LIZ TRUSSI 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.
LIZ TRUSSThe 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.
LIZ TRUSSBritain 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.
LIZ TRUSSNobody 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.
LIZ TRUSSAs Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese.
LIZ TRUSSTaking 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.
LIZ TRUSSLabour 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.
LIZ TRUSSWe are fighting a Labour Party whose avowed enemy is capitalist bosses, whose instinct is to see income as a common pool resource, and whose leading figures find profit morally repugnant.
LIZ TRUSSI campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.
LIZ TRUSSI want people to buy British because it’s the tastiest food and the most exciting food.
LIZ TRUSSIt’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.
LIZ TRUSSWhen I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme.
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