Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public.
THERESA MAYWe 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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People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What’s happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond.
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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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Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.
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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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I think it’s important to do a good job and not to feel that you’ve got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.
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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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Tying money up for 40 years doesn’t sound appealing when you are young.
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It’s only by investing properly in our defense that we can ensure we’re properly equipped to face our shared challenges together.
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There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.
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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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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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We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.
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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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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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If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
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