Jo Johnson Quotes

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

Leaving the E.U. would mean the 'Guernseyfication' of the U.K., which would then be a little country on the world scale. It would isolate itself and become a trading post and arbitration place at Europe's border.

I have specifically argued that we need to change our relationship with the European Union by fundamentally reforming not just our relationship but the European Union itself.

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.

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

Very few MPs disagree with the need for a withdrawal bill to enable us to disentangle our 50-year relationship with the legal structures of the European Union and to enable us to function effectively outside of it.

The ability to control our borders stands at the heart of the debate on whether or not Britain should leave the European Union.

Membership of the E.U. makes Britain literally ungovernable, in the sense that no administration elected by the people can govern the country.

By all means, let's have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become about our own economic and political destiny being surrendered to Brussels with agendas that arguably have very little to do with the interests of the British people and British voters?

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.

I believe that there are better opportunities to keep people safe if we are outside 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.

The 'in' campaign will attempt to scare people into believing that if the U.K. were to leave, investment and jobs would move abroad. They are as wrong about that now as they were when they warned that this would happen if we did not sign up to the Euro.

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

We need Britain not only to stay in the E.U. but to be very active in it.

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.

The Remain campaign... I've never seen a more miserable offering. All they are saying is stay in and we'll do our best to make sure that Britain's Parliamentary independence isn't eroded faster than we can possibly imagine.

Brexit has really broken a taboo. The Brits have shown us that you can leave the European Union, and you can come out better.

Being in the European Union has its advantages, and I think that is what the British are beginning to understand, what those who are tempted by the Brexit are going to reflect upon.

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.

Imagine what we could achieve if we had more Conservative MEPs in the European Parliament in terms of getting a better deal for Britain and negotiating fundamental reform and putting that in a referendum to the British people.

We cannot afford to let Brexit slip away - the political price, the reputational damage to the country is too great.

Brexit is not only not just about left and right. Brexit is about expertise.

There is no doubt that our government is pro-European.