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Theresa May

I want to put the interests of ordinary working people right up there, center stage. Those people who – you know, they’re working all the hours. They’re doing their best for their families and sometimes they just feel the odds are stacked against them.
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Family Feeling Interest Myself Ordinary People Work
Nobody can guarantee the real terms per pupil funding increase. In the Labour party’s manifesto we know the figures don’t add up.
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Add Figure Known Manifestation Reality Term
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.
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Deliver Gesture Important Myself Thinking
Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it’s about the qualities of the individual in doing that job.
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Job Man Quality Woman
As I say the UK’s position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is the same as it has been. We condemn torture.
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Issues Ourselves Policy Position Torture
The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.
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Actor Honesty Politician Public
I think major reorganisation is not something the government’s about to do.
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Government Myself Thinking
Like Indiana Jones, I don’t like snakes – though that might lead some to ask why I’m in politics.
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Myself Politics Question Snake
My night out would be with my husband, wherever he chose to take me.
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Choice Husband Myself Night
My pitch is very simple. I’m Theresa May and I think I’m the best person to be prime minister of this country.
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Country Myself Pitch Simplicity Thinking
Politics is changing and as the demographics of different constituencies change so we need to be awake to the possibility of making gains where we have not traditionally done so.
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Awake Change Different Politics Possibility Traditional
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.
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Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.
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Burden Change Marriage People Settle
The idea that Parliament somehow wasn’t going to be able to discuss, debate, question issues around (Brexit) was frankly completely wrong.
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People feel that they’re being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves.
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Feeling Impose People Requirement Restriction
The internet makes it much easier for politicians to communicate directly with voters – think of the interest when David [Cameron] launched WebCameron, or Tony Blair’s rather embarrassing attempt to catch up on YouTube.
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