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" I'm not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes. "
Theresa May
Sure
Reveal
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" Tax credits do not help people get better jobs; in fact, they can create poverty traps that actually disincentivise people from working more hours or finding a better paid job. "
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" And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do. "
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Within
Police
" It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say. "
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" I grew up the daughter of a local vicar and the granddaughter of a regimental sergeant major. "
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Local
Grew
" 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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People
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" I was a teenage godmother. "
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Godmother
" In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain. "
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Take
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" The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time. "
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Doing
Changing
Child
" People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel. "
Theresa May
Want
Choice
People
" Let's start getting some free trade agreements started as soon as we can. We need to get on with it; we need to get a grip and make progress. "
Theresa May
Start
Trade
Progress
" I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons. "
Theresa May
People
Trust
Think
" I don't tour the TV studios. I don't gossip over lunch. I don't drink in Parliament's bars. I don't wear my heart on my sleeve. I just get on with the job in front of me. "
Theresa May
Gossip
Me
Lunch
" 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. "
Theresa May
People
Rules
Work
" We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought. "
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Decisions
Going
Government
" 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. "
Theresa May
Believe
Want
Think
" It is not possible to debate the balance between privacy and security, including the rights and wrongs of intrusive powers, without also understanding the threats. "
Theresa May
Debate
Security
Understanding
" I was looking at a photograph of the 1997 election campaign yesterday, and I thought: 'My God. Did I really have that hairstyle? And that Tory blue suit?' "
Theresa May
Looking
God
Blue
" There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums. "
Theresa May
People
Power
Doing
" If, before 2020, there is a choice between further spending cuts, more borrowing and tax rises, the priority must be to avoid tax increases. They would disrupt consumption, employment and investment. "
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Tax
Avoid
Choice
" I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues. "
Theresa May
Feels
Anger
Someone
" We can bring immigration down to sustainable levels. "
Theresa May
Immigration
Down
Sustainable
" What we're also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing. "
Theresa May
Going
Doing
Think
" We know of officers who develop inappropriate relationships with victims of domestic abuse. They have ignored their professional duty and their moral responsibility. "
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Professional
Know
Responsibility
" The country voted to leave the European Union, and it is the duty of the Government and of Parliament to make sure we do just that. "
Theresa May
Government
Leave
Country
" Shortly after the appointment of Britain's first-ever female police constable with officials powers of arrest, the Home Office declared that women could not be sworn in as police officers because they were not deemed 'proper persons'. It makes you wonder what those Home Office officials would say now to having a female Home Secretary. "
Theresa May
Wonder
Women
Say
" A number of women have reportedly been victims of what appear to be discriminatory decisions taken by Sharia councils, and that is a significant concern. "
Theresa May
Significant
Women
Number
" I've been clear that Brexit means Brexit. "
Theresa May
Brexit
Means
Clear
" We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police. "
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Work
Meetings
People
" 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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Problems
See
Think
" What's important is that we do this in the right timescale to get the right deal for the U.K. We shouldn't invoke Article 50 immediately. "
Theresa May
Right
Article
Deal