Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.
THERESA MAYLabour completely accepts and recognises the vote to leave the EU. The question is what is the agenda for that process and that needs to be held to account in Parliament now and that means it needs to be open to a vote.
More Theresa May Quotes
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I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It’s all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.
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A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!
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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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Donald Trump does not understand the UK and what happens in the UK.
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The Government has already U-turned today and I think the pressure is clearly growing for proper accountability over what this Government’s negotiating position is on Brexit.
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I’m a first-past-the-post person, and always have been.
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In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.
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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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I am the only candidate capable of delivering these three things as prime minister, and tonight it is clear that I am also the only one capable of drawing support from the whole of the Conservative party.
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We’re getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we’re releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.
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We’re continuing to work to bring immigration down to the tens of thousands.
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Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.
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We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act. About the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.
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Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public.
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As I’ve said previously as home secretary, dealing with immigration isn’t just a single issue and a single measure and a single step that you take. You’ve got to keep working at that over time.
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If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
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Targets don’t fight crime.
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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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I’d personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.
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My night out would be with my husband, wherever he chose to take me.
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I’m not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes.
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I think major reorganisation is not something the government’s about to do.
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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.
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You can’t solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.
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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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I believe a strong NATO has been the bulwark of our defence in Europe. Obviously that’s important in the UK national interest and I believe it’s important in the US national interest.
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