Leo Varadkar Quotes

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

We should advocate that the North should stay in the customs union and the single market and that any customs checks should be in the ports and airports, not on land borders.

A Canada-style deal for the whole of the UK results in a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. For that reason, it has never been acceptable to the EU without a permanent hard border down the Irish Sea.

If Northern Ireland is in one customs regime and the Republic of Ireland is in another, why won't a customs border be necessary, just as happens with every other land border of this type?

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

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.

I don't want to leave euro or leave the European Union.

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

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.

No-one wants to see a return to the hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.

I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.

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

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.

We have the eurozone. Could we accept to be cleared, regulated, and de facto have inflows and outflows from a country that has decided to leave the E.U.? For me, definitely not.

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

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

There is no access to the market without budgetary contributions... and without respect for the four freedoms of the E.U.

Free access to the single market will be granted to a country which accepts the four fundamental freedoms of movement of people, goods, services, and capital.

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.

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

We want the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union.

Our idea is to make the U.K. a privileged partner of the E.U.

Anything that keeps the U.K. close to the E.U. and best of all, in the E.U., would make me personally very happy.

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.