Top 15 Theresa May Quotes

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.

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.

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?

Our laws will be made not in Brussels but in Westminster. The authority of EU law in Britain will end.

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.

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.

We must stand up for the right of everyone, no matter what their religion, to practise their faith in peace.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have consistently said that immigration has been good for this country,

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.

It is important to emphasise that disruption increases teacher's workloads and wastes lesson time that teachers have carefully prepared for.

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.