At the Conservative Party Conference on 4 October 2011 , while arguing that the Human Rights Act needed to be amended , May gave the example of a foreign national who the Courts ruled was allowed to remain in the UK , " because — and I am not making this up — he had a pet cat " . In response , the Royal Courts of Justice issued a statement , denying that this was the reason for the tribunal 's decision in that case , and stating that the real reason was that he was in a genuine relationship with a British partner , and owning a pet cat was simply one of many pieces of evidence given to show that the relationship was " genuine " . The Home Office had failed to apply its own rules for dealing with unmarried partners of people settled in the UK . Amnesty International said May 's comments only fuelled " myths and misconceptions " about the Human Rights Act and Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke subsequently called May 's comments " laughable and childlike . " In June 2013 , May signed an order prohibiting Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer , two American bloggers who co-founded the anti-Muslim group Stop Islamization of America , from entering the United Kingdom on the basis that their presence would not be " conducive to the public good " . The pair had been invited to attend an English Defence League march at Woolwich , where Drummer Lee Rigby had been killed earlier that year . The pressure group Hope not Hate led a campaign to exclude the pair , whom the Home Office described as " inflammatory speakers who promote hate "
Drummer Lee Rigby had been killed
Murder of Lee Rigby
Home Office under Theresa May