Betty Boothroyd Quotes

A Brexit with a poor outcome will damage our country and lead to years of further division.

We need to stop all this over-puffiness of how wonderful everything is going to be when we leave the E.U. Because it's not. It's going to be very damaging for huge sectors of British industry. We've got to be realistic.

Something is going to have to give because, if it doesn't, not only will we get Jacob Rees-Mogg as our prime minister, we will get a devastating hard Brexit which will cause huge damage to our economy for generations to come. And I am not prepared to sit by any longer and put up with this nonsense.

There is no question in my mind that a 'Brexit' would deal a significant blow to the E.U.'s strength and resilience at exactly the moment when the West is under attack from multiple directions.

Westminster is gripped by a fanatical race towards a cliff-edge Brexit and nobody is stopping to think about the impact it would have on the everyday lives of the people we serve as politicians.

I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit.

A no deal Brexit would be a complete failure by the government to negotiate for Britain.

The whole Brexit saga is, in my view, one big, terrifying leap in the dark.

The sheer drop in sterling since 2016 is only a taste of what's to come if we continue down the destructive route of a no-deal Brexit.

Ever since Theresa May's premiership, I have become suspicious of the 'lectern moment'. That is when the prime minister steps outside Downing Street to address the nation on Brexit.

I don't think anybody has any idea what the economic impact of Brexit will be.

If a candidate believes in a no deal exit, they should be straight with the British people that it will come at a very considerable cost.

It's an uncomfortable fact that leaving the European Union in a way that is true to the referendum result is becoming harder and harder to deliver.

The impact of Brexit is likely to be slow and incremental, hardly the sudden transformation that some Leave voters wanted. Immigrants will not disappear, and manufacturing will not immediately return to northern-English cities - quite the contrary.

When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating, that there would be a financial meltdown, I think it's been proven that they were not exaggerating.

I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Martin and Stephen King - Brexit would mean a combination of 'A Feast for Crows' and 'Misery.'

In retrospect, the populist panic may have been overblown. Regarding Brexit, for example, the shock exaggerated its meaning. Because it was so unexpected, it became a sensation.

We cannot afford to let Brexit slip away - the political price, the reputational damage to the country is too great.

Brexit stops Britain from being Great Britain.

We cannot do anything that exposes the country to the risk of Jeremy Corbyn.

As a strong believer that Brexit is a very damaging mistake that becomes more obvious every day, I see sound democratic reasons for asking the electorate to confirm what it wants to do.

You know, Theresa May, she's doing the best she can with not a great hand, a little bit like Chase Carey really.

Leaving people worse off financially is a Brexit outcome nobody supports, whether they voted leave or remain.

It is obvious to voters that Brexit has caused both of our principal parties to take leave of their traditional and historic purposes and principles, if not also their senses.

If I was prime minister, there would be absolutely zero risk that Brexit wouldn't happen.