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" 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

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" 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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" The Government cannot just be consumed by Brexit. There is so much more to do. "

" I've always championed women in politics. We just get stuck in; politics isn't a game. The decisions we make affect people's lives, and that is something we must all keep to the forefront of our minds. "

" I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England. "

" Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism. "

" Reducing net E.U. migration need not mean undermining the principle of free movement. When it was first enshrined, free movement meant the freedom to move to a job, not the freedom to cross borders to look for work or claim benefits. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause. "

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" We will talk to the CIFAS members, financial institutions, about the possibility of closing accounts of people who have no right to be here. If you're going to create a hostile environment for illegal migrants... access to financial services is part of that. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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Shoes

" 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. "

" The right place for a terrorist is a prison cell; the right place for a foreign terrorist is a foreign prison cell far away from Britain. "

" 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. "

" There must be no attempts to remain inside the E.U., no attempts to rejoin it through the back door, and no second referendum. "