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" 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. "
Theresa May
Work
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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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" Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics. "
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" The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society. "
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" There must be no attempts to remain inside the E.U., no attempts to rejoin it through the back door, and no second referendum. "
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" The Government cannot just be consumed by Brexit. There is so much more to do. "
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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. "
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" The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration. "
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" 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. "
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" The U.K. courts were very clear that Abu Qatada posed a threat to our national security - that's why we were pleased as a government to be able to remove him from the United Kingdom. "
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" I'm very fortunate. My husband is hugely supportive, and he is very happy getting on with his career. "
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" You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language? "
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" Local people do want to see more police on the streets. "
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" 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
" We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" I get cross about 13 years of Labour government that brought the country to the state it did. "
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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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" We can bring immigration down to sustainable levels. "
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" It is all around us, hidden in plain sight. It is walking our streets, supplying shops and supermarkets, working in fields, factories or nail bars, trapped in brothels or cowering behind the curtains in an ordinary street: slavery. "
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" Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism. "
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Threat
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