“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.”

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.

I’m not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

As I reflect on the results of election I will reflect on what we need to do in the future to take the party forward.

I believe it’s important that we ensure that the police have a modern and flexible workforce. I think that’s what is necessary, so that they can provide the public with the service that they want.

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.

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.

We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.

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.

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.

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.

The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.

Brexit must mean control of the number of people who come to Britain from Europe, and that is what I will deliver.

My night out would be with my husband, wherever he chose to take me.

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.

I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn’t like the film – fair cop. Others, I think, didn’t understand it.

The thing about pessimism is that in most cases it’s nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.