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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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Theresa May
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: October 1
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Theresa Mary Brasier
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The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.
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We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.
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Brexit must mean control of the number of people who come to Britain from Europe, and that is what I will deliver.
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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.
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We're committed to NATO. From the conversations I've already had with President [Donald] Trump over the phone, he has shown to me his commitment to NATO as well.
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For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.
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Donald Trump does not understand the UK and what happens in the UK.
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We're continuing to work to bring immigration down to the tens of thousands.
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As we conduct our negotiations it must be a priority to allow British companies to trade with the single market in goods and services but also, to regain more control of the numbers of people who are coming here from Europe.
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