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What's going to be important is having the opportunity to actually sit down with President Donald Trump and talk to him face to face, about the interests we share, about the special relationship, about the joint challenges we both face. Talking about the future of NATO is one of the issues we will discuss.
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People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves.
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I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country.
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Local people do want to see more police on the streets.
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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 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.
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Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.
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We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact.
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Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.
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There's a whole range of areas that we'll be looking at, so I'm not at this very early stage going to specify any particular areas. As you will know, there will be a limit to how far we can go in terms of a formal free trade agreement until we've actually left the European Union. I think there is much that we with Donald Trump can do in the interim in terms of looking at how we can remove some of the barriers to trade in a number of areas.
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I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.
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What happened in the United States election is not a matter for the United Kingdom, it is a matter for the United States and the United States authorities.
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I'm going to be very clear in everything we do. I believe the special relationship is important to us, it's important more widely across Europe and the world. But I will also be very clear in the decisions I take and the conversations I have about UK interests. I'm not going to say anything different to Donald Trump to what I'm saying to you in terms of UK interests and where those lie.
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What I'm clear about is that we have an opportunity through this early meeting with Donald Trump to start that process of building on that special relationship, that special relationship which is on our national interest, and I think that we can together not just build that special relationship but do it in a way that is good for both for us and good more widely.
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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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Britain and the United States are, and will remain, strong and close partners on trade, security and defence.
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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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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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I am delighted to have won so much support from my colleagues. The Conservative Party can come together - and under my leadership it will.
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We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.
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You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.
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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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Under my leadership the Conservative Party will come back together in the interests of the whole country.
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The internet is changing all forms of communication, and this definitely includes political communication.