I know that there is huge frustration from many people that I had to request this extension, but the choices we now face are stark and the timetable is clear. So we must now press on at pace with our efforts to reach consensus on a deal that is in the national interest.

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I want to put the interests of ordinary working people right up there, center stage. Those people who - you know, they're working all the hours. They're doing their best for their families and sometimes they just feel the odds are stacked against them.

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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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My pitch is very simple. I'm Theresa May and I think I'm the best person to be prime minister of this country.

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I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.

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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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In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.

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I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background.

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

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You have a job but you don't always have job security, you have your own home but you worry about mortgage rates going up, you can just about manage but you worry about the cost of living and the quality of the local school because there is no other choice for you.rankly, not everybody in Westminster understands what it's like to live like this and some need to be told that it isn't a game.

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The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.

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Brexit means Brexit.The public made their verdict.

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I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.

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Brexit must mean control of the number of people who come to Britain from Europe, and that is what I will deliver.

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It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since.

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[Is the Conservative Party still the Nasty Party?] I said it was perceived as the Nasty Party. And is it? I don't think that it's a phrase that people today would apply to the Party. I think that the perception of the Party has changed.

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

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Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.

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I know I'm not a showy politician... I don't go drinking in parliament's bars. I don't wear my heart on my sleeve, I just get on with the job in front of me and you can judge me by my record.

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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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