Priti Patel Quotes

David Cameron wants people to believe that his isolation in Europe is a result of Britain being outnumbered when it matters most.

What's important is that we do this in the right timescale to get the right deal for the U.K. We shouldn't invoke Article 50 immediately.

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

However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.

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

Article 50 is very poorly written and raises more questions more answers.

Very few MPs disagree with the need for a withdrawal bill to enable us to disentangle our 50-year relationship with the legal structures of the European Union and to enable us to function effectively outside of it.

I think that the European Union negotiators have gotten a shock. They were shocked when they realised the Brexit trade negotiations were not just going to be a continuation of those that happened under Theresa May.

Once the country voted for Brexit, I wanted the prime minister to make a success of it, but I knew that unpicking 45 years of entwinement with the E.U. would be impossible without our elected lawmakers being fully involved.

After 43 years of membership, exiting the E.U. was never going to be easy.

Let me be absolutely clear: I think it is defeatist to sort of say we want to leave the European Union. We're going to try and change the rules and change the way it works and change the objectives that it has in order to make it something that works for Britain.

My message is a simple one - the E.U. is not perfect, but Scotland's interests are best served by being a member.

We believe that from both a German and a Polish perspective, it is desirable for Great Britain to remain in the European Union.

Post-Brexit, we got a chance to start all over again with a president in Trump, who is Anglophile. He is pro-British. He knows the things we've shared together over the years - the good and the bad.

Even if the Brits decide to remain, we will have to avoid a contagion on other countries.

Brexit is the other face of the refugee crisis - tensions that lead to stasis, external risks that lead to asymmetric shocks.

I've been clear that Brexit means Brexit.

Leaving the E.U. would mean the 'Guernseyfication' of the U.K., which would then be a little country on the world scale. It would isolate itself and become a trading post and arbitration place at Europe's border.

The country voted to leave the European Union, and it is the duty of the Government and of Parliament to make sure we do just that.

If there is a 'Leave' vote in England and across the U.K. as a whole, then we see the reins of power being seized by politicians who are on the right of the Conservative party.

I can't foretell the future, but I don't believe that the act of leaving the European Union would make our economic position worse; I think it would make it better.

I have specifically argued that we need to change our relationship with the European Union by fundamentally reforming not just our relationship but the European Union itself.

I was fully aware of the challenges facing London before I was elected as mayor, but I didn't anticipate the issue that is likely to define my time as mayor - Brexit.

The 'in' campaign will attempt to scare people into believing that if the U.K. were to leave, investment and jobs would move abroad. They are as wrong about that now as they were when they warned that this would happen if we did not sign up to the Euro.

A U.K. vote to exit the European Union could have significant economic repercussions.