One of the issues that has been an issue in how we deal with net migration up until now is that we haven’t been able to have any control over freedom of movement from the European Union. We will have that control in the future once we leave the EU.
THERESA MAYMy 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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I have not watched WAGs World, I have not watched the BBC’s Upstairs, Downstairs, either. It would be Downton Abbey, I think.
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I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain’s future – in Parliament and across the country.
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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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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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Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.
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Britain is an open and tolerant country.
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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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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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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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The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.
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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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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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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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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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