“In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.”

We’re continuing to work to bring immigration down to the tens of thousands.

I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution; it’s one of the most important institutions we have.

I’m not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.

Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if police numbers are the holy grail. But actually what matters is what those police are doing. It’s about how those police are deployed.

Targets don’t fight crime.

There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.

The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.

On gay adoption I have changed my mind.

Like Indiana Jones, I don’t like snakes – though that might lead some to ask why I’m in politics.

Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can’t be right.

It’s only by investing properly in our defense that we can ensure we’re properly equipped to face our shared challenges together.

My pitch is very simple. I’m Theresa May and I think I’m the best person to be prime minister of this country.

Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public.

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they’re going to travel.

I’m a first-past-the-post person, and always have been.

I think it’s important to do a good job and not to feel that you’ve got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.