John Prescott Quotes

The U.K. is leaving the E.U. but not Europe.

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

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

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.

When it comes to whether Britain should remain in the European Union, almost all political parties and traditions - Labour, the Greens, Liberal Democrats, the SNP, Plaid Cymru, and half of the Tory Party - agree that we are better off in Europe.

All of us in Parliament now have a responsibility to get on with the process of leaving the EU and securing a more prosperous future for Britain as an open, global, trading nation.

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

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.

Leaving the E.U. is an opportunity for our country.

No one voted for a Brexit that will tie us to the E.U.'s customs rules and prevent us striking meaningful trade deals of our own.

We need to underline the need for Britain to depart from the European Union in an orderly fashion.

Like most MPs, I campaigned and voted to remain in the EU. I was concerned that extricating ourselves from a relationship built up over 40 years would be complex and challenging and that the economic cost of increasing friction in our trade with the EU would be high.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

The EU is an English-speaking power. The single market was a British idea…. If you refuse please don’t expect us to help you wreck or paralyze the EU.

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

I hope Britain stays in the European Union, but I don't want to decide for the British.

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

The arguments in the Brexit vote and in the American presidential campaign are about the same. In a friendly way, may I also give some advice to the American people to make the right choice when the moment comes.

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.

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

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

Genuinely, as a mum, all the sunlit uplands are when we leave the European Union.

The only way to keep the British economy secure is to leave the E.U.