Quotes About Britain

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

Imagine what we could achieve if we had more Conservative MEPs in the European Parliament in terms of getting a better deal for Britain and negotiating fundamental reform and putting that in a referendum to the British people.

Even before the Windrush scandal, it was clear Britain's immigration system was in desperate need of reform.

Labour's Climate Change Act and our other reforms, including the Green Investment Bank, have been the foundation for the huge growth of Britain's green industries.

Britain proves to be an ideal setting for many a medieval-minded crime novelist, regardless of century.

People won't want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain. Our aim should be to give the British people greater control of their lives in all regards.

Britain needs a tough, strong financial conduct regulator.

I see no reason why France and Britain should not have excellent relations - we are old allies.

The American revolution not only cost Britain the 13 colonies but also forced it to rethink the slave trade and slavery, and influenced its power relations in Asia and the Pacific.

Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.

People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.

I think the people of Great Britain have embraced me in a great way and I feel honoured and looking forward to winning the title in England for them.

The E.U. has narrowed our horizons. It has narrowed everyone's horizons in Whitehall so they're not thinking about the big things in the world. They're not thinking about the forces changing it or what Britain can really do to contribute to them.

Chasing new runway capacity to cater to ever more frequent leisure flights by Britain's wealthiest households isn't just iniquitous - it's bad economic policy.

The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who built and lived in them, but of the people who worked there, of the local area, of all of us.

I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.

I want to live in Britain with a sense of humour - where there are no groups whose life choices are 'above' criticism.

THE BOSTON TEA PARTY On December 16, 1773, American colonists met with representatives of the British government in Boston to discuss turning the thirteen American colonies into a separate country. Tea was served.

Britain's socialists might not like imperialism, but they were quite fond of the empire.

Leaving the E.U. with no deal means Britain would default to World Trade Organisation rules with our biggest trading partner.

Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental Europe and began seriously threatening our own shores and safety, it became much easier to denounce any anti-war agitation and argument as inherently irresponsible and unpatriotic.

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.

It is so important for European countries, post-Second World War, to prove that they can be successful multiethnic and multiracial democracies. I think we in Britain have had great success in avoiding the hatreds and prejudices of the past.

From the ruins of the second world war, Labour rebuilt Britain and set it on course for European co-operation and membership of the E.U.