This is the full text of a speech delivered this week by Home Secretary Theresa May to the Reform think tank. We’re delivering more with less – so let’s have the courage of our convictions Thank you. A year or two ago I appeared on ‘Question Time’, and before the filming Shirley Williams introduced me
‘Loving the roof garden.’
‘There’s always one.’
‘As an MP, one needs a second job in order to keep in touch with ordinary people.’
‘Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello!’ (4 January 1963)
‘So, let’s take a look at how the badgers are getting on…’
‘I see you’ve sold one.’
‘Two bottles of meths, some paint stripper, a bottle of aftershave...’
‘He used to be a chess Grand Master. Now he’s just really really good at Angry Birds.’
‘I’d like some summer reading for the beach.’
‘I suppose I just have to accept that you’re not Daddy’s little girl any more.’
‘It’s amazing! Sally Bercow hasn’t spilled the beans!’
‘I borrowed this, but I can’t find any shops to spend it in.’
Why Ukip aren’t extremists Sir: I don’t wish to be rude to Matthew Parris (‘Why Ukip is a party of extremists’, 1 June), but he should think carefully before labelling civilised citizens as extremists. It’s a silly word to use given what real extremists get up to these days, but the important point is that
Spy society High on the agenda when Barack Obama and Chinese president Xi Jinping meet in California will be US accusations that China is stealing US intellectual property. Yet the industrial revolution in the US was based on a piece of industrial espionage. — Samuel Slater, who became known as the father of the US
