Chris Grayling Quotes

I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit.

As far as I am concerned this referendum should settle the matter. I believe it will one way or another be decisive. Britain will not want to go through this again. On the other hand if we vote to leave, this really is irreversible.

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.

The E.U. referendum is a major watershed in U.K. history. It will be important for the future of the Conservative party. It will be even more important for the future of our country.

People talk often of Brexit as the biggest challenge since the Second World War. It is certainly proving to be a lot more difficult and complicated than was promised by those who won the referendum campaign in 2016.

Brexit stops Britain from being Great Britain.

The U.K. voted for Brexit and a lot of weak-willed, lily-livered people will say 'yeah but the people did not know what they were voting for, they had no idea of what this was going to entail.' Those are the people who are saying 'lets get a second referendum, let's make the people aware this time that there is, in fact, a lot more to this.'

The whole Brexit saga is, in my view, one big, terrifying leap in the dark.

We believe that from both a German and a Polish perspective, it is desirable for Great Britain to remain in the European Union.

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.

I think that what is happening now in terms of the Brexit vote does represent a serious undermining of the Good Friday Agreement.

I've got to see the Brexit process through. we won the war, but we must win the peace.

Calling into question the Touquet deal on the pretext that Britain has voted for Brexit and will have to start negotiations to leave the union doesn't make sense.

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.

When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating, that there would be a financial meltdown, I think it's been proven that they were not exaggerating.

We must stand up for the principle of parliamentary democracy and not allow the government's failure in the Brexit process to be a licence for the U.K. to crash out of the E.U. without an agreement.

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.

Brexit is a self-inflicted wound; the people of this country hold the knife, and they don't have to use it if they don't want to. The people, not the hardline Brexiteers, are in charge.

Actually, I never wanted an E.U. referendum, and I think those who called for it will one day wish they hadn't.

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.

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

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 believe that Brexit, whether it's a bad deal or no deal, is a big deal - too big for anyone to ignore - but it's not a done deal.