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
fighting target crime
Targets don't fight crime.
home office police
Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.
jobs thinking important
I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.
thinking people politician
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.
responsibility car political
I disagree with the analysis that you've put about what happened in relation to the student demonstrations and protests and the incident with the Prince of Wales' car. We're very clear that we have to separate out the political responsibility from operational responsibility of the police.
party support together
I am delighted to have won so much support from my colleagues. The Conservative Party can come together - and under my leadership it will.
party drawing support
I am the only candidate capable of delivering these three things as prime minister, and tonight it is clear that I am also the only one capable of drawing support from the whole of the Conservative Party.
cutting thinking messages
I think that probably in some areas the Labour message about some of the things that they said we were going to do - and which we weren't going to do - cut through.
party thinking important
The Conservative Party's always stood in every seat and I think it's important to us.
country jobs grateful
I am very grateful to my colleagues for their support. There is a big job before us: to unite our party and the country, to negotiate the best possible deal as we leave the EU, and to make Britain work for everyone.
jobs communication mean
These modern means of communication are one reason why I recently opposed the Government's decision to grant MPs a new communications allowance. With new technology giving us the opportunity to communicate directly with voters very cheaply, why did Labour MPs vote for a £10,000 allowance to tell voters what a good job they do?
done gains different
Politics is changing and as the demographics of different constituencies change so we need to be awake to the possibility of making gains where we have not traditionally done so.
school home people
I had a cup of tea with Michael Howard after my appointment shortly after I became Home Secretary, and without telling tales out of school, shortly after I became Home Secretary, and he said that when people used to ask him whether he enjoyed it he'd reply that "enjoy" wasn't quite the right description.
country numbers people
Obviously, given the objective that we have, what I would hope is that people would be able to see that actually we had reduced the numbers of people, the net number of people, coming into the country. People would, presumably, see that, but it's difficult to say how.