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Government is about priorities.
Britain is a country of glass ceilings.
We are concerned about benefit tourism.
I want to be the Tough Justice Secretary.
I'm a lightning rod for the anti-Brexit brigade.
Scotland is a great country. It's integral to the U.K.
During the late 1940s, Europe was a pretty bleak place.
No one would normally accuse me of being soft on crime.
We are world leaders in open and transparent government.
University research is crucial to our future as a nation.
In an ideal world, no one should get something for nothing.
Family breakdown is blighting the lives of far too many children.
We remain fully committed to introducing a cap on social care costs.
The SNP talks a lot - but they have proved that they cannot deliver.
Travel costs should not be a barrier to opportunity for our young people.
We need a proper balance between rights and responsibilities in our laws.
Introducing ID cards isn't a matter of great national security importance.
We cannot do anything that exposes the country to the risk of Jeremy Corbyn.
We need to curtail the role of the European Court of Human Rights in the U.K.
The state has no right to cast people aside because they are sick or disabled.
The growth of cycling is a good thing. But good cycling is responsible cycling.
We're ending the situation where any old thug can turn up and work as a bailiff.
An economic strategy built around hiking taxes for business means one thing: fewer jobs.
We need society, and particularly the victims of crime, to believe justice is being done.
We need to be self-confident, ambitious, and relentlessly internationalist in our outlook.
I'm not afraid of making big and sometimes unpopular calls if they're the right thing to do.
People are innocent until they are proven guilty, and we will make sure that stays the case.
I think that far too often we let those who commit crimes in our society off far too lightly.
We need to scrap the Human Rights Act and need a balance between rights and responsibilities.
I don't think all the cycle lanes in London have been designed as well as they should have been.
Visit any of the fastest growing parts of the world and you will find investment in infrastructure.
European businesses will want to retain free-trade access to the U.K. - their biggest export market.
I want prisons to be spartan, but humane, a place people don't have a particular desire to come back to.
I'm very mindful of the need to ensure we have a criminal justice system in which people have confidence.
Universities which deliver high quality research and innovation will be an essential part of that future.
On our toughest estates, generations pass with the same experience of worklessness and educational failure.
To survive in the future, we will need our economy to be dynamic, entrepreneurial, innovative and flexible.
Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.
The gang culture - tragically - has for some young people become the only source of stability in their lives.
A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.
The trouble with the SNP is they want power without responsibility. They do not want to take difficult decisions.
Judicial review has developed since the 1970s as a way for individuals to challenge decisions taken by the State.
Good health and safety really matters - we need to protect people against death and serious injury in the workplace.
We cannot afford to let Brexit slip away - the political price, the reputational damage to the country is too great.
Turkey has a customs union with the E.U. - it still means there are checks on the border between Turkey and the E.U.
This is not rocket science. If you mentor and support people when they leave prison they're less likely to reoffend.
You can't be allowed to take away the rights of others, and then use your own rights to avoid facing the consequences.
As somebody who campaigned to leave the EU, I believe we have a bright future ahead of us- but we have to get it right.
We are a humane society, and one which believes that we have to help rehabilitate offenders so they turn away from crime.
You chastise children when they are bad, as my parents did me. I'm not opposed to smacking. It is to be used occasionally.