Quotes By Theresa May

The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.

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.

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 doing. It's about how those police are deployed.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

I'm not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes.

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.

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.

Tying money up for 40 years doesn't sound appealing when you are young.

I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.

People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What's happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond.

Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they've elected to determine their local policing.

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.