When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications.
LIZ TRUSSI have seen too many chaotic settings, where children are running around. There’s no sense of purpose.
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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’d love the job of Chancellor one day.
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Women need to be less squeamish about making money.
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.
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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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I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.
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In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
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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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From the coffee bars of Camden to the gin joints of Norfolk – across Britain, a revolution is brewing. And no, it’s not John McDonnell’s bitter socialist hooch. It’s a generation growing up with an entirely different view of the world – free thinking, optimistic and hungry for success.
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I’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.
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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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I am delighted to be at the heart of this team of radical reformers in Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Nick Boles and many others. It’s a team I believe will deliver the change Britain needs.
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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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I’m very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.
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In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we’ve just got all-or-nothing.
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Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
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The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.
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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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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.
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We don’t know what’s around the corner – and we must do everything to ensure we get our country’s debts down, building our resilience so we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past.
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If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.
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The fact that Australians want to come and live and work in Britain, and Brits want to come and live and work in Australia.
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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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We had meetings throughout the day and the girls had to play outside the office while mummy went to ‘boring’ meetings.
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What I saw when I went to France was that really good quality education and childcare is seen there as a completely normal part of everyday life.
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I’m saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.
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