Andrea Leadsom Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

The U.K. matters with or without being a member of the E.U.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

If you look at it ideologically, I would say Brexit is not something that probably is good for the world.

We cannot afford to let Brexit slip away - the political price, the reputational damage to the country is too great.

I went to bed on the night of Brexit, of that vote for leaving the E.U., and I said to everyone it will be a 70/30: nobody wants to leave the E.U. I woke up on the bus in Glastonbury, and everybody had their heads in their hands. They could not believe it. I could not believe it.

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.

I do not believe that as a country we are completely ill-prepared for no-deal Brexit. It is not the optimal solution it is not the best outcome for Britain, we will do much better than people expect.

So much of the agenda behind Brexit has been murky.

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 don't think the U.K. should leave the E.U. I think it would be a disaster for our economy, and it would lead to a decade of economic and political uncertainty at a time when the tectonic plates of global success are moving.

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 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.

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.

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.

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