Priti Patel Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Brexit will happen.

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.

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.

Leaving the E.U. without a preferential trade arrangement in place would make the U.K. significantly poorer.

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.

It's difficult to see how the U.K. can be a member of the E.U. if it's not adherent to the principles set out in the convention.

Brexit is not ideal. I'm famously not a Brexit negotiator, but relations between Ireland and the U.K. have been getting stronger, and a big part of that has been trade and feeling like sister countries within the E.U. I don't think it will affect the 'vibe' of relations, but it will have a significant effect on trade and business.

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

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.

If a candidate believes in a no deal exit, they should be straight with the British people that it will come at a very considerable cost.

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.

What I would rather see, what I think would be the best outcome, is a very close relationship between the United Kingdom and the E.U.

If the U.K. wants to leave the E.U., we need to stay in the single market.

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.