Politician

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

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.

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.

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.

Our laws must protect victims.

Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.

Tax credits do not help people get better jobs; in fact, they can create poverty traps that actually disincentivise people from working more hours or finding a better paid job.

I think we all agree that the comments Donald Trump made in relation to Muslims were divisive, unhelpful and wrong.

It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.

Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they've elected to determine their local policing.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

Tying money up for 40 years doesn't sound appealing when you are young.

If we are going to realise our ambition of ending the harmful practices of FGM and forced marriage, the role of young people in pushing for change is crucial. We also need to ensure that everyone, from government to civil society, is playing their part.

If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain.

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

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.

And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do.

The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.

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