People want to know about the details of politicians, what they like doing in their spare time, about their families. I think that’s human.
LIZ TRUSSEvery pound that comes into the Exchequer was earned by someone through hard work, and could have been used for a new car, a holiday or a treat for the children.
More Liz Truss Quotes
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I’m a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.
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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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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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When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme.
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It’s a merger of home life and work life. They aren’t that separate, I must confess, and my daughters know an awful lot about childcare reform now because of it.
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Our public services and the great people who work in them are improving lives.
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Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
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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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I want people to buy British because it’s the tastiest food and the most exciting food.
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I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.
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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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Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have made no secret of their desire to stamp out individualism and enterprise.
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Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial.
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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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Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
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