Keir Starmer Quotes

The country is polarised between those who would pursue a hard Brexit, which is where the prime minister is, and Remain.

To deliver a smooth, orderly Brexit, we must build a majority for a deal.

Neither we nor our European friends need prolonged uncertainty, and not everything needs to be negotiated before Article 50 is triggered and the exit process is concluded.

Labour is fundamentally a Remain party but it is in our interests to negotiate as good a deal as possible.

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

Having campaigned to remain in the E.U., I voted to trigger Article 50, in response to the clearly expressed wish of the electorate. It must now be my duty as an MP to try to ensure that Brexit is as smooth as possible and that there is a sound legislative framework in place to bring this about. A chaotic departure is in no-one's interest.

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

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.

We've been slagging off the E.U. for decades, and now we've gone and voted to leave. And if anyone thinks they are going to offer us some great trade deal as we walk away, they are living in la la land.

Putting the Withdrawal Bill in order is an essential step to stability and achieving a reasonable outcome to Brexit.

What I'm suggesting is making an offer to the E.U. for things that were already agreed in the withdrawal agreement that will enable us to leave with a managed exit.

I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.

We have to be extremely strict on the implementation of Brexit so there is a common approach between member states. We must avoid a sector-by-sector or country-by-country approach, and ask the U.K. to be clear.

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.

Under Conservative, Labour, and coalition governments, the U.K. was never willing to accept all the moves to union or all the requirements of the E.U.

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

I fear a very hard Brexit, but I hope we will find a better solution.

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.

Notice of leaving the E.U. under Article 50, for which most of us voted, provides a mechanism for extending the negotiating period by agreement if this is necessary. It is not to undermine Brexit to insist it is carried out correctly.

Whatever may have been suggested by some Leavers during the referendum it must be clear now that the Brexit process is immensely complicated.

I am Brexit tooth and claw, but we need to be pragmatic and sensible and leave with a deal.

Theresa May... is ideally placed to implement Brexit on the best possible terms for the British people, and she has promised she will do so.

Both the U.K. and the E.U. have made a sincere commitment to the people of Northern Ireland: there will be no hard border. Equally, as a U.K. government, we could not countenance a future in which a border was drawn in the Irish Sea, separating Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K.

The E.U. must see us prepare for life outside of the E.U. without a deal for them to take us seriously.

Jeremy Corbyn is a Brexiteer. This guy has always wanted us to leave the E.U.