Quotes from Theresa May

I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.

I have grown used to the focus on my clothes and my shoes.

So we mustn't lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and we're very conscious of the need to continue that.

Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism.

I actually think I think better in high heels.

Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.

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.

We need to change attitudes. We can only change attitudes by working together. Government will do its bit, but I want you all to do your bit, too. So speak out, stand up against violence against women and girls, and that's the way we can eradicate it.

It does not make sense that everybody should duplicate efforts when we could be working together.

As I've said previously as home secretary, dealing with immigration isn't just a single issue and a single measure and a single step that you take. You've got to keep working at that over time.

If ever there was a time for a PM ready and able to do the job from day one, this is it.

The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

Our manifesto to the British people promised to finish the job of police reform. And that is exactly what I intend to do.

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language?

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.

Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work.

We have a very clear position in the U.K. against torture, and we should maintain that.

Under my leadership the Conservative Party will come back together in the interests of the whole country.

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

There must be no attempts to remain inside the E.U., no attempts to rejoin it through the back door, and no second referendum.

It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges.

UKIP talk a lot about immigration - but they don't have a serious plan for action.

We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.