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.
THERESA MAYIn seats where perhaps we don’t expect to win at the next general election, the new infrastructure gives us a chance to win local council seats and to build a campaigning base which could help us to win in the future.
More Theresa May Quotes
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Targets don’t fight crime.
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The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.
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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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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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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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There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.
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The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.
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I’m sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.
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I take a very simple view that a violent extremist at some point previously been an extremist, and by definition is an extremist, so you do need to look at that non-violent extremism.
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The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.
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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 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 was a teenage godmother.
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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.
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On gay adoption I have changed my mind.
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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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Labour 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.
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I am a vicar’s daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.
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It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain’s national interest that the EU should succeed.
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Like Indiana Jones, I don’t like snakes – though that might lead some to ask why I’m in politics.
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Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
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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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I know there are some voices calling for a punitive deal that punishes Britain. That would be an act of calamitous self-harm for the countries of Europe, and it would not be the act of a friend.
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I think major reorganisation is not something the government’s about to do.
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What happened in the United States election is not a matter for the United Kingdom, it is a matter for the United States and the United States authorities.
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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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