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Theresa May
97 quotes
“[The] jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in the UK must end”
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Recorded in: Not time to nitpick on Brexit - Jacob Rees-Mogg, BBC News (3 March 2018).
“the UK will stand shoulder to shoulder with the EU and with Nato to face these threats together”
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Recorded in: Putin 'will use World Cup like Hitler's Olympics', agrees Johnson, BBC News (21 March 2018).
“[Brexit was] a vote to take control of our borders, laws and money”
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Recorded in: UK needs Brexit 'safe harbour' - David Miliband BBC News (14 May 2018).
“Today's votes show people in the UK, and to the EU, that the elected representatives in this country are getting on with the job, and delivering on the will of the British people. Over the next few weeks we will publish more details of our proposed future relationship with the EU in a White Paper, and will bring the Trade and Customs Bills back to the House of Commons. But today has been an important step in delivering the Brexit people voted for, a Brexit that gives Britain a brighter future, a Britain in control of its money, laws, and borders.”
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Recorded in: Brexit: Bill approved after May sees off rebellion BBC News (20 June 2018).
“[I will ensure that] we are out of the customs union, that we are out of the single market, that we are out of the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice, we are out of the Common Agricultural Policy, we are out of the Common Fisheries Policy, we bring an end to free movement, we take control of our borders, we have an independent trade policy”
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Recorded in: Brexit 'worst option' warning for May on customs BBC News (4 July 2018).
“[My plan] delivers on the vote that people gave on Brexit. We deliver that Brexit and we do it in a way that protects jobs and livelihoods and meets our commitment to Northern Ireland.”
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Recorded in: Chequers Brexit plan is the best option available, Hague tells Tories BBC News (11 July 2018).
“I enjoy cooking, which has a benefit, you get to eat it as well as make it.”
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Recorded in: Q&A with factory workers in Gateshead (23 July 2018).
“But the EU should be clear: I will not overturn the result of the referendum. Nor will I break up my country.”
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Recorded in: Theresa May: EU must respect UK in Brexit talks BBC News (21 September 2018).
“You know we, he and I are all members of the Conservative and Unionist Party. That's because we believe in the union of the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland is part of that union. And we have a guarantee for the people of Northern Ireland and we are upholding that. Our Chequers plan does that it's the only plan on the table at the moment that does.”
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Recorded in: Theresa May on why Boris Johnson speech made her cross, BBC News (2 October 2018).
“That hasn't been possible for many years for people coming from the EU. That will change.”
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Recorded in: Theresa May on why Boris Johnson speech made her cross, BBC News (2 October 2018).
“He wanted to tear up our guarantee to the people of Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is part of the UK.”
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Recorded in: Theresa May on why Boris Johnson speech made her cross, BBC News (2 October 2018).
“I think people will feel a difference because they will know that for the first time in decades it is the UK government that is deciding who can come into the country,”
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Recorded in: Theresa May on why Boris Johnson speech made her cross, BBC News (2 October 2018).
“I'm proud that Gibraltar is British and I will always stand by Gibraltar.”
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Recorded in: Brexit: Donald Tusk tells European Union to approve deal BBC News (24 November 2018).
“We will take back control of our borders, by putting an end to the free movement of people once and for all.”
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Recorded in: Reality Check: Theresa May's Brexit letter BBC News (26 November 2018).
“We will take back control of our money, by putting an end to vast annual payments to the EU. Instead, we will be able to spend British taxpayers' money on our own priorities, like the extra £394m per week that we are investing in our long-term plan for the NHS.”
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Recorded in: Reality Check: Theresa May's Brexit letter BBC News (26 November 2018).
“We will take back control of our laws, by ending the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in the UK. In future, our laws will be made, interpreted and enforced by our own courts and legislatures.”
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Recorded in: Reality Check: Theresa May's Brexit letter BBC News (26 November 2018).
“We will be out of EU programmes that do not work in our interests: out of the Common Agricultural Policy that has failed our farmers and out of the Common Fisheries Policy that has failed our coastal communities. EU citizens who have built their lives in the United Kingdom will have their rights protected, as will UK citizens living elsewhere in the EU.”
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Recorded in: Reality Check: Theresa May's Brexit letter BBC News (26 November 2018).
“Outside the EU, we will be able to sign new trade deals with other countries and open up new markets in the fastest-growing economies around the world.”
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Recorded in: Reality Check: Theresa May's Brexit letter BBC News (26 November 2018).
“[A 2nd EU referendum would be a] betrayal of the vote of the British people”
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Recorded in: Brexit: Referendum may be inevitable - John McDonnell BBC News (28 November 2018).
“Our deal is the best deal available for jobs and our economy, that allows us to honour the referendum and realise the opportunities of Brexit”
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Recorded in: Brexit will make UK worse off, government forecasts warn, BBC News (28 November 2018).
“[My negotiated EU deal] gives us control of our borders, our money and our laws - it protects jobs, security and our Union”
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Recorded in: Theresa May calls off MPs' vote on her Brexit deal BBC News (10 December 2018).
“Let us not break faith with the British people by trying to stage another referendum”
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Recorded in: Theresa May sets January date for MPs' Brexit vote BBC News (17 December 2018).
“[A 2nd EU referendum] would do irreparable damage to the integrity of our politics, because it would say to millions who trusted in democracy, that our democracy does not deliver”
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Recorded in: Brexit: Theresa May says David Cameron 'not advising her' BBC News (17 December 2018).
“In 2019 the UK will start a new chapter. The Brexit deal I have negotiated delivers on the vote of the British people. If Parliament backs a deal, Britain can turn a corner. The referendum in 2016 was divisive. But we all want the best for our country and 2019 can be the year we put our differences aside and move forward together, into a strong new relationship with our European neighbours and out into the world as a globally trading nation.”
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Recorded in: UK can 'turn a corner' if MPs back Brexit deal, says May BBC News (31 December 2018).
“Overwhelmingly the British people want us to get on with delivering Brexit and also address the other important issues they care about. I believe it is my duty to deliver on the British people's instruction to leave the European Union and I intend to do so.”
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Recorded in: Brexit: Theresa May says MPs must 'work together' to deliver Brexit BBC News (16 January 2019).
“[I will] continue to work to deliver on the solemn promise to the people of this country to deliver on the result of the referendum and leave the European Union”
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Recorded in: May's government survives no-confidence vote BBC News (16 January 2019).
“The only way to avoid No Deal is to vote for a deal.”
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Recorded in: Brexit: Corbyn tells May to rule out no deal at meeting BBC News (30 January 2019).
“It is good to see that we agree that the UK should leave the European Union with a deal and that the urgent task at hand is to find a deal that honours our commitments to the people of Northern Ireland, can command support in Parliament and can be negotiated with the EU - not to seek an election or second referendum.”
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Recorded in: Brexit: Theresa May to give MPs update on Tuesday BBC News (11 February 2019).
“We triggered Article 50 (the process by which the UK leaves the EU)... that had a two-year time limit, that ends on the 29 March. We want to leave with a deal, and that's what we are working for.”
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Recorded in: Brexit: Theresa May plays down 'deal or delay' report BBC News (13 February 2019).
“It is important to emphasise that disruption increases teacher's workloads and wastes lesson time that teachers have carefully prepared for.”
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Recorded in: On climate change marches (15 February 2019).
“Our focus to deliver Brexit must be absolute. We must not, and I will not, frustrate what was the largest democratic exercise in this country's history. In the very final stages of this process, the worst thing we could do is lose our focus.”
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Recorded in: Brexit must not be frustrated, Theresa May vows BBC News (24 February 2019).
“I have consistently said that immigration has been good for this country,”
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Recorded in: Brexit: MPs to have vote by 12 March, says May BBC News (24 February 2019).
“I continue to believe that by far the best outcome is the UK leaves the European Union in an orderly fashion with a deal. And that the deal we have negotiated is the best and indeed only deal available.”
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Recorded in: Brexit: MPs reject Theresa May's deal for a second time BBC News (13 March 2019).
“I ask everyone in this room to back the deal so we can complete our historic duty - to deliver on the decision of the British people and leave the European Union with a smooth and orderly exit.”
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Recorded in: Brexit: Theresa May vows to stand down if deal is passed BBC News (27 March 2019).
“People didn't vote on party lines when it came to the Brexit referendum. And I think members of the public want to see their politicians working together more often.”
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Recorded in: Brexit: 'Ball in government’s court' on talks, says Sir Keir Starmer BBC News (8 April 2019).
“The UK should have left the EU by now and I sincerely regret the fact that I have not yet been able to persuade Parliament to approve a deal.”
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Recorded in: Brexit: UK and EU agree delay to 31 October BBC News (11 April 2019).
“We must stand up for the right of everyone, no matter what their religion, to practise their faith in peace.”
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Recorded in: Theresa May calls for an end to persecution of Christians in Easter message, Daily Mirror (21 April 2019).
“I will shortly leave the job that it has been the honour of my life to hold. The second female prime minister, but certainly not the last. I do so with no ill will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love.”
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Recorded in: Theresa May quits: UK set for new PM by end of July BBC News (24 May 2019).
“It is important that we deliver a Brexit that is good for the British people. It will be up to my successor to take this forward. To find the majority in Parliament that I was not able to find and to deliver the decision of the British people in 2016.”
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Recorded in: Brexit: Theresa May refuses unconditional support for next PM BBC News (27 June 2019).
“Our laws will be made not in Brussels but in Westminster. The authority of EU law in Britain will end.”
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Recorded in: 10 things that stopped Brexit happening BBC News (18 July 2019)
“I served on the National Security Council for nine years; six years as Home Secretary and three as Prime Minister. During that time I listened to the expert independent advice from national security advisers. On Saturday, my Rt. Hon friend said "we must be able to promote those with proven expertise". Why, then, is the new national security adviser a political appointee with no proven expertise in national security?”
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Recorded in: On the appointment of David Frost to replace Mark Sedwill as National Security Adviser. Theresa May criticises PM over choice of Brexit envoy for security role, BBC News (30 June 2020).
“What should be clear from this is whenever you close a route, the migrants and the people smugglers find another way, and anybody who thinks that this Bill will deal with the issue of illegal migration once and for all is wrong. Not least because a significant number, if not the majority, of people who are here illegally don't come on small boats, they come legally and overstay their visas.”
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Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons on the Illegal Migration Bill (13 March 2023), cited in Alix Culbertson "'I will not be hectored by out of touch lefties': Braverman hits out amid Migration Bill backlash" Sky News (13 Mar…
“If you’re born poor, you will die on average nine years earlier than others. If you’re black, you’re treated more harshly by the criminal justice system than if you’re white. If you’re a white, working-class boy, you’re less likely than anybody else to go to university. If you’re at a state school, you’re less likely to reach the top professions than if you’re educated privately. If you’re a woman, you still earn less than a man. If you suffer from mental health problems, there’s too often not enough help to hand. If you’re young, you’ll find it harder than ever before to own your own home. These are all burning injustices, and – as I did with the misuse of stop and search and deaths in police custody and modern slavery – I am determined to fight against them.”
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“As we see the threat changing, evolving becoming a more complex threat, we need to make sure that our police and security and intelligence agencies have the powers they need. I mean longer prison sentences for people convicted of terrorist offences. I mean making it easier for the authorities to deport foreign terrorist suspects back to their own countries. And I mean doing more to restrict the freedom and the movements of terrorist suspects when we have enough evidence to know they are a threat, but not enough evidence to prosecute them in full in court. And if our human rights laws stop us from doing it, we will change the laws so we can do it.”
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Recorded in: Speech on the election trail after the (7 June 2017).
“While the recent attacks are not connected by common networks, they are connected in one important sense. They are bound together by the single evil ideology of Islamist extremism that preaches hatred, sows division and promotes sectarianism. It is an ideology that claims our Western values of freedom, democracy and human rights are incompatible with the religion of Islam. It is an ideology that is a perversion of Islam and a perversion of the truth. Defeating this ideology is one of the great challenges of our time, but it cannot be defeated by military intervention alone. It will not be defeated by the maintenance of a permanent defensive counter-terrorism operation, however skillful its leaders and practitioners. It will only be defeated when we turn people’s minds away from this violence and make them understand that our values – pluralistic British values – are superior to anything offered by the preachers and supporters of hate.”
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“While we need to deprive the extremists of their safe spaces online, we must not forget about the safe spaces that continue to exist in the real world. Yes, that means taking military action to destroy Isis in Iraq and Syria. But it also means taking action here at home. While we have made significant progress in recent years, there is – to be frank – far too much tolerance of extremism in our country. So we need to become far more robust in identifying it and stamping it out across the public sector and across society. That will require some difficult, and often embarrassing, conversations. But the whole of our country needs to come together to take on this extremism, and we need to live our lives not in a series of separated, segregated communities, but as one truly United Kingdom.”
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“The decision of the the House [of Commons] on this report is important. It is important to show the public that there is not one rule for them and another for us. [...] Following an unsettling period in our political life, support for the report of the Privileges Committee will be a small but important step in restoring people's trust in members of this House and of Parliament. And I also say to members of my own party that it is doubly important for us to show that we are prepared to act when one of our own, however senior, is found wanting. I will vote in favour of the report by the Privileges Committee, I urge all members of this House to do so – to uphold standards in public life, to show that we all recognise the responsibility we have to the people we serve and to help to restore faith in our parliamentary democracy.”
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Recorded in: Debate in the House of Commons on the Privileges Committee investigation into Boris Johnson (19 June 2023), as cited in "Theresa May urges MPs to back Boris Johnson’s sanction as Rishi Sunak stays away" Evening Standrad…