Barry Gardiner Quotes

The Remain campaign... I've never seen a more miserable offering. All they are saying is stay in and we'll do our best to make sure that Britain's Parliamentary independence isn't eroded faster than we can possibly imagine.

We must find a credible route through Brexit to build a better country and go forward together.

If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.

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.

By all means, let's have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become about our own economic and political destiny being surrendered to Brussels with agendas that arguably have very little to do with the interests of the British people and British voters?

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

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

If I was British, I would vote resolutely 'remain' because it's in the U.K.'s interest.

I'm going to devote myself full time to securing and then winning a referendum on leaving the E.U.

Imagine what we could achieve if we had more Conservative MEPs in the European Parliament in terms of getting a better deal for Britain and negotiating fundamental reform and putting that in a referendum to the British people.

Leaving the E.U. is an opportunity for our country.

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

All of us in Parliament now have a responsibility to get on with the process of leaving the EU and securing a more prosperous future for Britain as an open, global, trading nation.

The only way to keep the British economy secure is to leave the E.U.

I believe Britain's response to Brexit must be based on core progressive values: internationalism, cooperation, social justice and the rule of law.

Labour has repeatedly emphasised that in order to avoid a cliff edge for our economy there will need to be a time-limited transitional period between our exit from the E.U. and the new lasting relationship we build with our European partners.

With every ounce of my heart, my brain, and my experience, I absolutely believe that the bright future for all of our children and grandchildren is when we vote Leave.

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

Membership of the E.U. makes Britain literally ungovernable, in the sense that no administration elected by the people can govern the country.

Let me be absolutely clear: I think it is defeatist to sort of say we want to leave the European Union. We're going to try and change the rules and change the way it works and change the objectives that it has in order to make it something that works for Britain.

I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it.

I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.

Many of our European partners have ambitions that are not generally shared by the British.

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.