Liz Truss Quotes

Liz Truss

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 26, 1975

Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.

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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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Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.

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I am quite bolshy, sometimes. I like to get my own way, lets put it like that.

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I feel I've come home at the Treasury.

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I'd love the job of Chancellor one day.

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I didn't become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country... I want to see popular free-market Conservatism where barriers are broken down, people have got more opportunities but keep more of their own money.

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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. People want to start businesses because it's a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.

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I think we've got caught up in the weeds of Brexit, and... the approach has been to try and compromise and split the difference. And that to me is not what Brexit is about.

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Women need to be less squeamish about making money.

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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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Britain has always been at its most successful when it's a trading nation.

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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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If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.

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I have been the only female minister in every government department I've worked in.

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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 think there's a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.

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Let's cut the top rates of stamp duty to enable more movement to take place and also looking at the broader tax reform, simplifying our tax system.

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We've been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs, 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 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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