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.
THERESA MAYThe days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.
More Theresa May Quotes
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I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background.
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Britain is an open and tolerant country.
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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 am a vicar’s daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.
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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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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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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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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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Like Indiana Jones, I don’t like snakes – though that might lead some to ask why I’m in politics.
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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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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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For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.
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Donald Trump does not understand the UK and what happens in the UK.
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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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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 look forward to continuing the debate about Britain’s future – in Parliament and across the country.
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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’m not someone who feels anger on particular issues.
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Brexit means Brexit.The public made their verdict.
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National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
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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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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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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.
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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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There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.
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