Keir Starmer Quotes

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

The government must be open enough to provide robust impact assessments of leaving the single market or the customs union, including region-by-region and sector-by-sector analysis.

The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union.

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

Genuinely, as a mum, all the sunlit uplands are when we leave the European Union.

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.

You don't need to be a John Maynard Keynes to understand that if Britain leaves the European market, a border will have to be put in place - and that would break U.K. obligations in a treaty lodged at the United Nations.

The ability to control our borders stands at the heart of the debate on whether or not Britain should leave the European Union.

Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.

I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

If we leave the E.U., we will regain control of our own money.

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

Anyone who's working in manufacturing here should know they will have increased opportunities if we leave the European Union.

The referendum was clear: the British people voted to leave the single market and to take back control of our borders.

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 can't foretell the future, but I don't believe that the act of leaving the European Union would make our economic position worse; I think it would make it better.

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.

Under Conservative, Labour, and coalition governments, the U.K. was never willing to accept all the moves to union or all the requirements of the E.U.

I believed and hoped that we would be able to secure a deal with Europe which would enable us to amend free movement.

The people who are backing the Remain campaign are people who have done very well, thank you, out of the European Union.

I believe the United Kingdom will be worse off outside the E.U. It will not have the influence it has in the world today.

Our idea is to make the U.K. a privileged partner of the E.U.

We must stand up for the principle of parliamentary democracy and not allow the government's failure in the Brexit process to be a licence for the U.K. to crash out of the E.U. without an agreement.

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.