Quotes from Anna Soubry

For many of us, our country and the interests of our constituents are more important than our party.

People come from all over the world - from Europe and further afield - to work, study, and innovate in our country. More than 50,000 work in our National Health Service, making a vital contribution in caring for our ageing society.

If we had a vote in parliament, the majority of MPs would not vote for a hard Brexit.

We are leaving the E.U. I accept that. But I made a decision I was never again going to vote against my conscience, and that stands.

We've been slagging off the E.U. for decades, and now we've gone and voted to leave. And if anyone thinks they are going to offer us some great trade deal as we walk away, they are living in la la land.

There is a sense of resignation among most people who voted Remain that we have to 'man up' - even the women among us - and make the most of what we know will be a rotten Brexit.

Nobody voted to be poorer, and nobody voted leave on the basis that somebody with a gold-plated pension and inherited wealth would take their jobs away from them.

Hate is awful.

It is very easy for middle-class people who come from moneyed backgrounds not to understand what it's like for people when they first go down to the dole office because they've lost their jobs.

You have to be true to what you believe in.

I shall be true to what I believe.

I am simply not prepared to stand back and watch my country fall off a cliff edge. If that means voting against my party, so be it.

We need to wake up to the reality of what migration is about. They come here to work. The idea that they take British jobs is not true; they add huge value to our economy.

Service life will continue to be a force for good, providing a career, training, and education to men and women from all walks of life - who generally love their time in service and do well when they leave. For those who don't, the government continues to help.

If we have Brexit, we don't know what we will get.

Our aerospace industry is a British success story which relies on Airbus - a collaboration with other E.U. countries.

Where I am in Nottingham, there is a Sainsbury's, and you see children going in there buying take away food - a sandwich, but more likely a packet of crisps, a fizzy drink - and that's their breakfast.

I didn't go into politics to tell people how much salt to put on their chips.

I'd like to apologise to the British people for the state our politics is in.

I just want my party back, please.

The Leave campaign claims we send £350 million a week to Europe. This is untrue. When you take into account the rebate Margaret Thatcher got for us and the money we get back in E.U. funding, the true figure is nowhere near that.

I came into politics to fight lefties... That's where political fighting goes.

Few Conservatives MPs have taken any pleasure from the witch-hunt against moderate Labour MPs by the hard-Left Momentum group.

We need somebody with a proven track record of competence, leadership and what you see is what you get.