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.
LIZ TRUSSBrexit has energised millions of people, young and old, to take part in our democracy and that’s a great thing.
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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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Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world.
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We want a fully comprehensive trade deal that reflects our deep, ongoing relationship, the friendship between our two countries.
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I agree. It is vital we keep taxes low and the size of the state in check, to allow people to spend more of their own money.
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The free market is fundamentally humane and democratic, driven by ideas and millions of individual choices about what to do with our money which defy those who benefit from the status quo.
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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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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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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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Schools receive 12% more per student for those doing media studies or psychology than they do for those doing maths. You could change that around, made a premium on doing maths.
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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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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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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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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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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.
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I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.
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