Quotes By Theresa May
The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.
Theresa May
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.
Theresa May
If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain.
Theresa May
Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if police numbers are the holy grail. But actually what matters is what those police are doing. It's about how those police are deployed.
Theresa May
Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.
Theresa May
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
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
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.
Theresa May
I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.
Theresa May
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
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
Theresa May
It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.
Theresa May
Starting with the highest-risk countries, and focusing on the route to Britain that is widely abused, student visas, we will increase the number of interviews to considerably more than 100,000, starting next financial year. From there, we will extend the interviewing programme further across all routes to Britain, wherever the evidence takes us.
Theresa May
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
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.
Theresa May
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
Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.
Theresa May
There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.
Theresa May
We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.
Theresa May
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
I think if you talk to anybody who would like to have had children... I mean, you look at families all the time and you see there is something there that you don't have.
Theresa May
Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
Theresa May
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