David Gauke Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

If we had a vote in parliament, the majority of MPs would not vote for a hard Brexit.

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

Brexit will not be easy.

We've been slagging off the E.U. for decades, and now we've gone and voted to leave. And if anyone thinks they are going to offer us some great trade deal as we walk away, they are living in la la land.

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 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.

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

I've been clear that Brexit means Brexit.

If I am prime minister, we will come out of the European Union, and part of that will be control of free movement.

I strongly suspect that there would be a positive economic advantage to the U.K. in leaving the single market.

There must be no attempts to remain inside the E.U., no attempts to rejoin it through the back door, and no second referendum.

Brexit will happen.

The treaties of the European Union say that, once a country has decided to leave, then they are excluded from the treaty after two years, unless there is unanimous agreement to extend that period.

No deal wouldn't return sovereignty to the U.K., it would make us dependent on a sweetheart deal with Donald Trump.

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.

The E.U. must see us prepare for life outside of the E.U. without a deal for them to take us seriously.

The country is polarised between those who would pursue a hard Brexit, which is where the prime minister is, and Remain.

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.