Quotes About Keir Starmer

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.

Brexit can be stopped.

Labour's approach is not about what is politically right, it is about what is right for the country.

We have to call out terrorism for what it is, and I have always done that, and the Labour Party has always done that.

I spent five years prosecuting some of the most dangerous terrorists in this country, so it would be quite difficult for people to pin the charge of being soft on terrorism on me.

We were right to say from the outset that E.U. citizens should not be treated as bargaining chips but should have their rights guaranteed immediately. We were right to call on the government to publish a plan for Brexit.

The pursuit of an extreme Brexit cannot come at the cost of peace in Northern Ireland.

Our five-year-old son thinks I ought to work in the local bookshop, and I can see the appeal of that.

The key to understanding the impact of the Human Rights Act in the U.K. is to appreciate that civil liberties and human rights are not two sides of the same coin.

In my view, the military action taken in Iraq in 2003 was not lawful under international law because there was no U.N. resolution expressly authorising it.

When I was the director of public prosecutions between 2008 and 2013, I had staff working at the Eurojust HQ in The Hague 24/7.

Brexit is so important, it would have been neglect of duty to simply sit it out.

To draft a bill of rights that simply replicates the European convention on human rights gives the game away; namely that the Human Rights Act does, in fact, offer appropriate protection to all of our citizens according to universally accepted standards.