Chris Grayling Quotes

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.

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

There is no form of Brexit that will be good for our country but a no-deal Brexit will be the most catastrophic of them all.

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.

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.

The entire debate around a 'No Deal' Brexit assigns a vastly overstated importance to the role of government in daily life.

Every day we let this Brexit mess go on means less money being invested in the UK, fewer jobs being created and less tax revenue to pay for our public services.

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.

I think one of the laughable things about poor old Brexit is that they're so cross - they're furious with everyone. But this isn't a cross country; this is a generous and optimistic country.

No one needs to fear our decision to leave the E.U. We will do so carefully, reassuring our European friends and those businesses who are worrying about change.

I think Brexit is disappointing from an economic perspective.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The U.K. voted for Brexit and a lot of weak-willed, lily-livered people will say 'yeah but the people did not know what they were voting for, they had no idea of what this was going to entail.' Those are the people who are saying 'lets get a second referendum, let's make the people aware this time that there is, in fact, a lot more to this.'

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

So much of the agenda behind Brexit has been murky.

It is not in Poland's interest that the U.K. leaves the European Union. We think it would lead to a big crisis and even a collapse if the U.K. left.

I said a vote to leave would be a Brexit tax. I couldn't think of anything stronger than that.

I don't think the British people really knew the ramifications of what would happen after Brexit or not.