Keir Starmer Quotes

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.

Britain needs a good Brexit deal to safeguard jobs, security and trade and to build a new partnership with the E.U. Achieving this will be fiendishly difficult.

To deliver a smooth, orderly Brexit, we must build a majority for a deal.

The nature of the final Brexit deal really matters. It is, as I have said before, the battle of our times.

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.

When we were told Brexit meant taking back powers for Parliament, no one told my constituents this meant the French parliament and the German parliament, not our own.

Whether it is a hard or soft Brexit, there are opportunities here for us to be had.

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

I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.

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

Calling into question the Touquet deal on the pretext that Britain has voted for Brexit and will have to start negotiations to leave the union doesn't make sense.

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.

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

We need a transitional Brexit deal that provides maximum certainty and stability. Labour will deliver it.

If we say to the E.U. our backstop position is that we will be the vassal state, why should the E.U. make any effort to make any arrangement other than us to be a vassal state?

The Tories must stop focusing on their ideological obsession with a hard Brexit and their internal party divisions and start focusing on what is best for our country and our economy. Their absurd proposal that the U.K. should become the E.U.'s tariff collector is neither practical nor palatable across the Channel.

What are these better deals the U.K. really wants from Europe and other countries? Some more clarity would be helpful.

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.

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

Brexit is a major concern for us, and it should be a major concern for all of us who live in the U.K. and operate out of the U.K.

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

If the U.K. wants to leave the E.U., we need to stay in the single market.

The U.K. matters with or without being a member of the E.U.

Labour is fundamentally a Remain party but it is in our interests to negotiate as good a deal as possible.