I had a cup of tea with Michael Howard after my appointment shortly after I became Home Secretary, and without telling tales out of school, shortly after I became Home Secretary, and he said that when people used to ask him whether he enjoyed it he'd reply that "enjoy" wasn't quite the right description.

People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What's happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond.

As I reflect on the results of election I will reflect on what we need to do in the future to take the party forward.

I think that probably in some areas the Labour message about some of the things that they said we were going to do - and which we weren't going to do - cut through.

I think major reorganisation is not something the government's about to do.

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

Brexit must mean control of the number of people who come to Britain from Europe, and that is what I will deliver.