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The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.

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Theresa May
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: October 1
British Politician
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Theresa Mary Brasier
Prime Minister Theresa May
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There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.
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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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Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
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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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The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.
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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.
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I believe a strong NATO has been the bulwark of our defence in Europe. Obviously that's important in the UK national interest and I believe it's important in the US national interest
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Britain and the United States are, and will remain, strong and close partners on trade, security and defence.
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I was a teenage godmother.
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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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What happened in the United States election is not a matter for the United Kingdom, it is a matter for the United States and the United States authorities.
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Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public.
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What we're also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing.
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Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.
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I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.
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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.
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We're continuing to work to bring immigration down to the tens of thousands.
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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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Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it's about the qualities of the individual in doing that job.
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For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.
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