Quotes About EU

No one voted for a Brexit that will tie us to the E.U.'s customs rules and prevent us striking meaningful trade deals of our own.

I campaigned to stay in the E.U. I voted to stay in the E.U. and I was very disappointed by the outcome. And if there was another vote I would vote to remain in.

We had the biggest democratic exercise, and the majority voted to leave the E.U. It is our duty to make sure we do that.

Notice of leaving the E.U. under Article 50, for which most of us voted, provides a mechanism for extending the negotiating period by agreement if this is necessary. It is not to undermine Brexit to insist it is carried out correctly.

No country has left the E.U. since Greenland in 1985 and no one believes that delivering what the people voted for will be a walk in the park, so it's important that the person ultimately chosen by the party membership is tried and tested, capable of making tough decisions and can lead a team negotiating with E.U. institutions.

There were many reasons why people voted to leave the European Union in 2016. But my impression, having campaigned to remain in the E.U., is that above all else, people throughout this country sought to regain a feeling of control - not just of our laws, but over our lives too, and the people we elect into office.

Yes, I have found many people who voted for Brexit and believe it will answer their problems. But they mostly realise that Europe isn't the problem, however much the E.U. could be improved.

Like most MPs, I campaigned and voted to remain in the EU. I was concerned that extricating ourselves from a relationship built up over 40 years would be complex and challenging and that the economic cost of increasing friction in our trade with the EU would be high.

A majority of voters in a majority of constituencies voted to leave the E.U. I wish it wasn't so.

It's not only the British voters who have doubts about European cooperation. There is skepticism in many other E.U. countries.

Renzi is a pawn. Renzi is a dumb slave at the disposal of nameless people who want to control all of our lives from Brussels.

No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty.

You can never get perfection. There have to be constant course corrections and there will be constant course corrections on Brexit-related stuff once we leave the E.U.

NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves.

If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more.

The U.K. decided to leave the E.U. - Brexit means Brexit.

Brexit can be stopped.

Liberal Democrats will not rest until we have stopped Brexit.

Brexit has always been an impossible project, except at the price of massive self-harm.

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

We need Britain not only to stay in the E.U. but to be very active in it.

If the U.K. leaves the E.U., we'll have to consider whether it makes business sense to stay headquartered here.

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

If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.