Priti Patel Quotes

Whatever threats Remain may continue to fire at us, they cannot answer the simple and most basic proposition: that only by leaving the European Union can we control the numbers coming to our country.

The U.K. will leave the European Union, freedom of movement will end, and the British parliament will decide how many people come to live here.

I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.

We can bring immigration down to sustainable levels.

Nigel Farage has persuaded too many people that we have lost control of our borders.

As we exit the E.U., there must be a new approach to immigration that has the consent of the British people and is managed in their interests.

The fact is, as we leave the EU, Britain will be able to choose its own immigration system rather than having free movement with one part of the world and a managed system with elsewhere.

The government rightly resisted pressure to accept Free Movement of people from E.U. countries, to allow us to regain control over our immigration policy.

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

Our immigration policies are national suicide.

Let's get real: would any American president seriously open up their borders unconditionally to Mexico as the U.K. has done to the whole of the E.U.? No chance.

I completely understand why people are concerned about immigration. There's no silver bullet, no one thing you can do to suddenly deal with all the problems and concerns with immigration, and that includes leaving the E.U.

One thing is undeniable. If we are going to continue to have support for migration, we need to be able to control the numbers.

UKIP believe that immigration can be an extremely positive thing. But it has to be controlled.

The right kind of immigrants can benefit the British economy enormously, but no country can accept indiscriminate, unlimited immigration.

Immigration policy is a complicated issue. Or perhaps one should say immigration policies are complicated, since we have many different immigration laws and practices which interact in complex ways.

We have to have legal immigration, which has to be something that benefits our country.

What people want - and they will get - is control of our own system, with a lower and sustainable level of net migration. And, above all, that has to mean one thing: an end to freedom of movement.

We must keep attracting the brightest and best migrants from around the world. And we must implement a new immigration system after we leave the E.U. that gives us control and works in all of our interests.

We believe in immigration, but we don't believe in mass immigration.

Surely everyone can agree that immigration should be controlled.

I'm not suggesting we suddenly become a jingoistic, closed-door society that erects barricades at Dover. That would not be in the interests of London. But we can't, in my view, go on for ever accepting an unlimited number of people.

What I have always thought is that there should be a proper national conversation about what kind of immigration policies we have.

As we leave the E.U., freedom of movement falls away, because it's an E.U. rule... What we then have to say is, 'What then is on the blank piece of paper that is an immigration policy?'

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.