Priti Patel Quotes

Most trade agreements arise from a desire to liberalise trade - making it easier to sell goods and services into one another's markets. Brexit will not.

In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.

These agreements should be free trade. They aren’t free trade.

Demanding freedom of access to other markets isn't protectionism, it's free trade.

You cannot close down free trade. What you've got to do is open up markets.

Leaving the E.U. will enable the U.K. to undertake a major campaign for import substitution.

How can we have 'freer' free trade? Let's get real, for God's sake.

Leaving the E.U. enables the U.K. to be more engaged with the global economy, not just the European economy.

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.

I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU directives.

I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

I have long been a vocal advocate of reciprocal free trade though that position did not endear me to my own political party. And I continue to strongly believe in free and fair international trade.

We cannot open our markets to countries that do not open their markets to us.

There has always been a temptation, at times of economic difficulty, to turn inward and put up the shutters. That is when we need free trade most.

Can you have a free trade agreement with a country that isn't free?

I denounce the policy of protection as bondage.

The British Empire (with the exception of a very short period in the 1930s) was a free trade empire, unlike all the other great empires of the world …. Anyone could trade with the British Empire.

The prosperity created at home and overseas by free expansion [of foreign trade] was infinitely greater than could be coaxed by restrictive mercantilism.

I know something about trade agreements. I was proud to help President Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and create what is still the world's largest free-trade area, linking 426 million people and more than $12 trillion of goods and services.

What nobody wants to discuss is whether or not the black-and-white argument about trade - you're either a free trader or you're a protectionist - is the right one. It's the old 19th century argument.

The E.U., China, and Japan all talk free trade, and they all practice protectionism.

You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.

Free-trade enthusiasts fret that regional trade arrangements divert more trade than they create.

Upon leaving the E.U., Britain will find itself with more opportunities for economic innovation than at any time in almost 50 years.

One of the reasons people voted to leave the E.U. is so that we could have the freedom to strike trade deals with countries outside the E.U. Staying locked into the customs union prevents this.