Claire Fox Quotes

Brexit has changed everything in British politics - it has blown open a cosy, zombie-like closed world of Westminster parliamentary politics. It has broken open the traditional line between left and right, which was already an exhausted tradition.

The Brexit vote, the presidential elections in the U.S., a number of the other regional political movements - that's not a flash in the pan.

The vote in the United Kingdom in favor of leaving the E.U. attested to the loss of elite influence.

There's a lot in common between the Trump phenomenon and the campaign for Britain to exit the European Union, known as Brexit.

I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.

Donald Trump has fundamentally realigned American politics. It's time the media acknowledge this and give him the credit he deserves.

Mr. Trump is changing American politics forever and his leadership and strength are desperately needed.

Brexit is really a good forerunner of what's going to happen here in November, I think. The same angst that drove that vote is driving the American election.

America is a different country, and it will forever be a different country after the election of Donald Trump.

... there is little upside in analyzing [Donald] Trump's words. Those who support him are not looking for fancy language, of political correctness, or logical coherence, or human decency–all those establishment poses.

Fuck the EU!

Populism is strong in places with weak party systems because political parties exist precisely to form governments as well as legitimate oppositions. When identity politics predominates, populists will prosper.

Quite simply, without UKIP, there would not have been a referendum. I am convinced that the 'we want our country back, we want our borders back' message that we took across the country on an open-top double decker energised non-voters to back Brexit.

Trump brings rhetoric and reality together in a cartoon caricature of a Republican politician that anyone can understand. That gives him a vital role in history. He is the perfect exorcist to drive a stake through the heart of the modern Republican Party.

We've seen with Brexit and other things that there's a dark impulse to be petulant and frustrated with complicated solutions.

I grew up with parents who liked the old line that they didn't leave the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party left them.

Brexit was the first brick that was knocked out of the establishment wall.

UKIP's biggest fight is with the Conservative Party.

The Brexit campaign was transformed from a fringe eccentricity into a mass movement by a handful of people who decided to make it into an argument about identity.

One of the reasons why many British voters chose to leave the European Union was because they distrusted European institutions. Of all the many costs of Brexit, this was one I did not foresee: That it could wind up damaging the nation's faith in its own institutions too.

Once upon a time - in the days of Margaret Thatcher and John Major - I would have rejoiced in a Conservative Party landslide in Britain. But now, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's victory fills me with fear and foreboding.

The E.U. referendum was promised by a Conservative Prime Minister fearful of losing votes and of mass defections to UKIP.

We are going through a period of profound political and economic change around the world, and American citizens showed that deep desire for change in voting to elect Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States.

2016 was the year the Anglo-Saxon world woke up.

The fact that populism is flourishing internationally, far from the Electoral College and Fox News, suggests that Trump's specific faults might actually be propping up American liberalism.