Priti Patel Quotes

Neither we nor our European friends need prolonged uncertainty, and not everything needs to be negotiated before Article 50 is triggered and the exit process is concluded.

From the immediate abandonment of the promise of an extra £350m for the NHS, the history of Brexit is already littered with discarded and unfulfillable promises.

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.

Brexit is the most complex and difficult political decision our country has had to take in mine and many other lifetimes.

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've been clear that Brexit means Brexit.

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.

I fear a very hard Brexit, but I hope we will find a better solution.

I went to bed on the night of Brexit, of that vote for leaving the E.U., and I said to everyone it will be a 70/30: nobody wants to leave the E.U. I woke up on the bus in Glastonbury, and everybody had their heads in their hands. They could not believe it. I could not believe it.

Having campaigned to remain in the E.U., I voted to trigger Article 50, in response to the clearly expressed wish of the electorate. It must now be my duty as an MP to try to ensure that Brexit is as smooth as possible and that there is a sound legislative framework in place to bring this about. A chaotic departure is in no-one's interest.

Having spent six years as Europe Minister, I am in no doubt about the technical challenge Brexit presents lawmakers.

I believe that Brexit, whether it's a bad deal or no deal, is a big deal - too big for anyone to ignore - but it's not a done deal.

Any talk of no deal is completely unacceptable. No deal means we can't reach any agreement about the border in Ireland and that is not a place we want to be.

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

I fought passionately to remain in the E.U., and I warned of the economic risks if we left the E.U.

People talk often of Brexit as the biggest challenge since the Second World War. It is certainly proving to be a lot more difficult and complicated than was promised by those who won the referendum campaign in 2016.

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

Brexit will happen.

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

While we have agreed to pay the E.U. tens of billions of pounds in the Withdrawal Agreement, the Political Declaration that aimed to set out the principles for this future negotiation is a document deliberately vague to allow it to mean all things to all people.

In 2016 the public voted by a majority to leave the E.U. As I can see from my mailbag, some are angry at being deprived of their hopes and expectations. They demand action to implement their vote, just as others require we should think again and abandon the project entirely.

Whatever may have been suggested by some Leavers during the referendum it must be clear now that the Brexit process is immensely complicated.

Theresa May... is ideally placed to implement Brexit on the best possible terms for the British people, and she has promised she will do so.