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" Our laws must protect victims. "
Theresa May
Victims
Laws
Our
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" We can bring immigration down to sustainable levels. "
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" Labour ministers often look puzzled when reports show that Britain has one of the lowest levels of social mobility in the developed world. They just don't get it. They see poverty, inequality, fairness, as all about income. For the past 12 years, they have relied on tax credits to solve this. But tax credits do not solve poverty: they mask it. "
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" 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. "
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" We have to ask ourselves, is it really right that the E.U. should just continue to expand, conferring upon all new member states all the rights of membership? "
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Right
Rights
New
" I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent. "
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Want
Transparent
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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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First
Government
Duty
" Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement. "
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Need
Free
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" One girl subjected to FGM or forces to marry is one girl too many. "
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Too
" 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. "
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Going
Doing
Think
" Retailers have an important part to play in preventing knife crime - enforcing age restrictions and displaying knives safely is crucial. "
Theresa May
Important
Knife
Part
" 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
" You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause. "
Theresa May
You
Inequality
Problem
" In our fields, on our fishing vessels, in our factories and our homes, there are people deprived of their freedom and trapped in a life of unimaginable suffering. "
Theresa May
Our
Fishing
Suffering
" I am a great admirer of most of the judges in Britain. "
Theresa May
Am
Great
I Am
" Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes. "
Theresa May
Now
Help
World
" For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them. "
Theresa May
Matters
Government
Voters
" 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 am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England. "
Theresa May
Daughter
Still
Church
" 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
" The key for members of the public is that they want criminals to be punished. They want them taken off the streets. They also want criminals who come out of prison to go straight. "
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Key
Prison
Want
" You don't think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar's daughter. You're supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn't say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoes. "
Theresa May
Daughter
You
Say
" Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they've elected to determine their local policing. "
Theresa May
Will
Police
People
" I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings and balaclavas. "
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Police
Will
I Am
" 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. "
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Right
Article
Deal
" It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since. "
Theresa May
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Woman
Shoes
" No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis. "
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Daily
Security
Job
" 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. "
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Government
Leave
Country
" Many British people of different faiths follow religious codes and practices and benefit a great deal from the guidance they offer. "
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Follow
British
People
" On gay adoption I have changed my mind. "
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Changed
Gay
" Local people do want to see more police on the streets. "
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People
Want