Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid. – Theresa May
The key for members of the public is that they want criminals to be punished. They want them taken off the streets. They also want criminals who come out of prison to go straight. – Theresa May
Many British people of different faiths follow religious codes and practices and benefit a great deal from the guidance they offer. – 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
It is all around us, hidden in plain sight. It is walking our streets, supplying shops and supermarkets, working in fields, factories or nail bars, trapped in brothels or cowering behind the curtains in an ordinary street: slavery. – Theresa May
It does not make sense that everybody should duplicate efforts when we could be working together. – Theresa May
If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise. – Theresa May
Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that. – Theresa May
I don’t tour the TV studios. I don’t gossip over lunch. I don’t drink in Parliament’s bars. I don’t wear my heart on my sleeve. I just get on with the job in front of me. – Theresa May
I grew up the daughter of a local vicar and the granddaughter of a regimental sergeant major. – Theresa May
Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement. – Theresa May
Reducing net E.U. migration need not mean undermining the principle of free movement. When it was first enshrined, free movement meant the freedom to move to a job, not the freedom to cross borders to look for work or claim benefits. – Theresa May
It is not possible to debate the balance between privacy and security, including the rights and wrongs of intrusive powers, without also understanding the threats. – Theresa May
We’re getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we’re releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers. – Theresa May
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. – 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
If, before 2020, there is a choice between further spending cuts, more borrowing and tax rises, the priority must be to avoid tax increases. They would disrupt consumption, employment and investment. – Theresa May
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. – Theresa May
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? – Theresa May
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. – Theresa May
I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency. – Theresa May
We are all different. We all have different circumstances, and you have to cope with whatever it is, try not to dwell on things. – Theresa May
It is very important that people see there is a bright future, and we can re-engage that entrepreneurial spirit of the trading nation for which the U.K. has always been known – that dynamic, creative spirit. – Theresa May
We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we’ve restricted the number of economic – non-EU economic migrants. We’re cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we’re having an impact. – 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
We know of officers who develop inappropriate relationships with victims of domestic abuse. They have ignored their professional duty and their moral responsibility. – Theresa May
