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born 1963 United Kingdom
Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom (born 13 May 1963) is a British Conservative politician. She was the Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy from July 2019 to February 2020.
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There will be no second referendums on my watch - not on Scottish independence and not on EU membership.
You can’t block no deal. You can’t put into law that you can’t leave without a deal.
We are clear we won't be delaying Article 50. We won't be revoking it.
The absolute, top priority ... is to get our economy going again, and nowhere more so than in the very small business sector.
I do not believe that we will be a truly sovereign United Kingdom through the deal that is now proposed
In all circumstances we are leaving the European Union on 31 October
What is so weird about Tony [Blair] is that when he is speaking, it's almost hypnotic – you start to just accept what he is saying, and like Mowgli when he was being hypnotised by Kaa the python in Jungle Book, you have to kick yourself out of it.
I envisage there being absolutely no regulation whatsoever—no minimum wage, no maternity or paternity rights, no unfair dismissal rights, no pension rights—for the smallest companies that are trying to get off the ground, in order to give them a chance.
I wholeheartedly believe that same-sex couples have as valid a relationship with their partner as do heterosexuals. I also believe that in the eyes of the state we all deserve to be treated equally
the UK cannot be trapped in a permanent customs arrangement
If the government has any courage, it will punish those at the top of failed banks. Accountability is critical in every area of human endeavour – there has to be a penalty for failure otherwise it's only a matter of time before the economic pain our banks have caused to so many innocent businesses and home owners is forgotten.
But as I say, sterling has really not moved since the prime minister announced the starting gun for the referendum. So my best expectation, with my 30 years of financial experience, is that there will not be an economic impact.
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