Keir Starmer Quotes

The negotiations on the future of the U.K. and the E.U. must be led... in the interest of our citizens.

It will be crucial the E.U. and the U.K. maintain the closest economic relationship possible.

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

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.

If we leave the E.U., we will regain control of our own money.

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

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

No deal wouldn't return sovereignty to the U.K., it would make us dependent on a sweetheart deal with Donald Trump.

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.

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.

We need to work together to either achieve a form of Brexit that does not threaten our future or ensure that the decision to complete departure is the electorate's informed choice.

If the U.K. had new watertight proposals for the border, I don't think anyone in the E.U. would say, 'We don't want to talk about it.'

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

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.

I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

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.

I fought passionately to remain in the E.U., and I warned of the economic risks if we left the E.U.

The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union.

If you vote to leave the E.U.... we will have additional flexibility to help industries who really need it.

I personally hope and wish that Britain will stay part and parcel of the European Union.

The referendum was clear: the British people voted to leave the single market and to take back control of our borders.

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.