Ed Davey Quotes

Although I voted Remain, I have desperately wanted the Government, in which I have been proud to serve, to make a success of Brexit: to reunite our country, our party and, yes, my family too.

I welcome the Independent Group as it is committed to saving the country from a catastrophic hard Brexit.

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

In 2016, we all thought Remain would hopefully win.

Brexit can be stopped.

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.

We want the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union.

For Liberal Democrats, the political choice between the hard Brexit menus offered by Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt might seem about as tempting as arsenic verses strychnine.

When it comes to whether Britain should remain in the European Union, almost all political parties and traditions - Labour, the Greens, Liberal Democrats, the SNP, Plaid Cymru, and half of the Tory Party - agree that we are better off in Europe.

There are, of course, some who demand a no-deal Brexit and threaten to vote for any party that will deliver it.

I'll keep fighting for the best, most successful Brexit.

I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.

Liberal Democrats are proud to be the main U.K. political party leading the Remain campaign. Being pro-E.U. is in our DNA: internationalism, tearing down walls rather than building them, is at the heart of who we are as a party.

We will vote down a blind Brexit. This isn't about frustrating the process. It's about stopping a destructive Tory Brexit. It's about fighting for our values and about fighting for our country.

Liberal Democrats have been leading the fight for a People's Vote and we're getting closer to that with each day.

I have absolutely no doubts that the best for the U.K. is to stay in the European Union.

I know there's an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

Just as I believe that Britain should want to remain in the EU so the EU should want us to stay.

I never doubted that our parliamentarians would vote to trigger article 50 but I expected a detailed, pragmatic debate around the options of how to execute Brexit and the processes involved.

I'm not supporting Jeremy Corbyn. If we are to have an election I would fight as Lib Dem leader as the party of remain that hasn't equivocated on this like Jeremy Corbyn.

I cannot conceive of circumstances where Labour MPs are marshalled to go through the lobby to vote against us staying in the single market and customs union with the likes of Jacob Rees Mogg, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.

Given that the reality of Brexit has turned out to be so far from what was once promised, the democratic thing to do is to give the public the final say.

Donald Trump is not a politician and has not been around the Hill like many of the other candidates were.

What happened with Brexit was people taking back control.

I will always believe that my vote, and the votes of my Lib Dem colleagues, are the best thing I can do to save this country from a no-deal Brexit and save it from Boris Johnson.