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.
LIZ TRUSSA UK-Australia trade deal won’t just be a good thing, it’ll be a great thing, for our businesses, for our consumers, for our workers and for our two great countries.
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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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Labour 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.
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We have lots of roadside stands in Norfolk where you can just pick up vegetables that people have grown in their garden and put the money in a pot.
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Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
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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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Our aim should be to give the British people greater control of their lives in all regards.
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Leaving the European Union really does give us a chance as a country to become more outward-looking, to become more competitive, and to deepen our links with our partners right across the world.
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From better access to American markets for our beef and lamb farmers, to cutting tariffs on dairy products like cheese, which are up to 17 per cent, there are significant opportunities for UK farming.
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I want to challenge those who aim to block change, stop development and restrict success. I want to challenge the caution that strangles risk-takers and go-getters.
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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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When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications.
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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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Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.
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People won’t want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain.
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The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.
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