Theresa May
Theresa May
Theresa Mary Mayis the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party. She has also been the Member of Parliamentfor Maidenhead since 1997. May identifies as a one-nation conservative and is characterised as a liberal conservative...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 October 1956
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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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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?'
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The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.
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The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.
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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.
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So we mustn't lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and we're very conscious of the need to continue that.
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Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1,000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right.
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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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If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.
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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.
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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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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.
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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
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Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right