Theresa May

“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.”

“Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.”

“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...”

“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.”

“Now there is a growing feeling, it's something that David Cameron led on actually, he said this some time ago, that MPs should not be voting on their own pay.”

“And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're ab...”

“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 doin...”

“Labour ministers often look puzzled when reports show that Britain has one of the lowest levels of social mobility in the developed world. They just don't get it. They see poverty, inequalit...”

“We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the publ...”

“A number of women have reportedly been victims of what appear to be discriminatory decisions taken by Sharia councils, and that is a significant concern.”

“Retailers have an important part to play in preventing knife crime - enforcing age restrictions and displaying knives safely is crucial.”

“I think we all agree that the comments Donald Trump made in relation to Muslims were divisive, unhelpful and wrong.”

“It does not make sense that everybody should duplicate efforts when we could be working together.”

“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...”

“We need to change attitudes. We can only change attitudes by working together. Government will do its bit, but I want you all to do your bit, too. So speak out, stand up against violence aga...”

“Unfortunately, some judges evidently do not regard a debate in Parliament on new immigration rules, followed by the unanimous adoption of those rules, as evidence that Parliament actually wa...”

“We will talk to the CIFAS members, financial institutions, about the possibility of closing accounts of people who have no right to be here. If you're going to create a hostile environment f...”

“Let's start getting some free trade agreements started as soon as we can. We need to get on with it; we need to get a grip and make progress.”

“We are engaged in a struggle that is fought on many fronts and in many forms.”

“I was a teenage godmother.”