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 MAYTying money up for 40 years doesn’t sound appealing when you are young.
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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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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 not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes.
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I was a teenage godmother.
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On gay adoption I have changed my mind.
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I’m a first-past-the-post person, and always have been.
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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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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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People feel that they’re being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves.
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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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Under my leadership the Conservative Party will come back together in the interests of the whole country.
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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’m not someone who feels anger on particular issues.
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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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You can’t solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.
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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 was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved 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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I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution; it’s one of the most important institutions we have.
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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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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.
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There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.
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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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In 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.
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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 and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.
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