Theresa May

Politician

1956-10-01

British politician who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019. She was previously home secretary and later represented the Conservative Party as prime minister during the Brexit process. She remains a notable figure in modern UK politics.

Books by Theresa May

Salmon Is Everything: Community-Based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
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Quotes by Theresa May

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.
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Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.
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The Snowden leaks did cause damage.
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I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.
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National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
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Shortly after the appointment of Britain's first-ever female police constable with officials powers of arrest, the Home Office declared that women could not be sworn in as police officers because they were not deemed 'proper persons'. It makes you wonder what those Home Office officials would say now to having a female Home Secretary.
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My pitch is very simple. My name is Theresa May, and I think I'm the best person to be Prime Minister of this country.
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I was looking at a photograph of the 1997 election campaign yesterday, and I thought: 'My God. Did I really have that hairstyle? And that Tory blue suit?'
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In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.
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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.
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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.
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Tax credits do not help people get better jobs; in fact, they can create poverty traps that actually disincentivise people from working more hours or finding a better paid job.
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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 wants to see those new rules implemented.
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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.
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I think we all agree that the comments Donald Trump made in relation to Muslims were divisive, unhelpful and wrong.
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The U.K. courts were very clear that Abu Qatada posed a threat to our national security - that's why we were pleased as a government to be able to remove him from the United Kingdom.
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What is absolutely clear is that we have, with the U.S., an extradition treaty which is important, I believe it is an important treaty, for both sides, the United States and the United Kingdom. It is a treaty that I believe is balanced and we work on that basis.
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I grew up the daughter of a local vicar and the granddaughter of a regimental sergeant major.
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You don't think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar's daughter. You're supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn't say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoes.
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I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.
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