Dominic Grieve Quotes

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.

Having spent six years as Europe Minister, I am in no doubt about the technical challenge Brexit presents lawmakers.

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.

If we had a vote in parliament, the majority of MPs would not vote for a hard Brexit.

If a candidate believes in a no deal exit, they should be straight with the British people that it will come at a very considerable cost.

If we have Brexit, we don't know what we will get.

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.

The U.K. voted for Brexit and a lot of weak-willed, lily-livered people will say 'yeah but the people did not know what they were voting for, they had no idea of what this was going to entail.' Those are the people who are saying 'lets get a second referendum, let's make the people aware this time that there is, in fact, a lot more to this.'

I don't think the British people really knew the ramifications of what would happen after Brexit or not.

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.

From the immediate abandonment of the promise of an extra £350m for the NHS, the history of Brexit is already littered with discarded and unfulfillable promises.

Labour has repeatedly emphasised that in order to avoid a cliff edge for our economy there will need to be a time-limited transitional period between our exit from the E.U. and the new lasting relationship we build with our European partners.

I hope that 'Remain' will carry the day, just on the grounds of common sense.

We have collectively to face up to the fact that in the two main political parties there are substantial disagreements on the best form Brexit should take.

I never doubted that our parliamentarians would vote to trigger article 50 but I expected a detailed, pragmatic debate around the options of how to execute Brexit and the processes involved.

After 43 years of membership, exiting the E.U. was never going to be easy.

The government must be open enough to provide robust impact assessments of leaving the single market or the customs union, including region-by-region and sector-by-sector analysis.

Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.

I think Brexit will go down that it will end up being a fantastic thing for the United Kingdom. I think in the end, it will be a tremendous asset, not a tremendous liability.

Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It's not. On the contrary, it's a massive opportunity for this country.

I think it [Brexit] is wonderful.We've got to decide in this country who we are.We made a momentous decision.It's a bit like a prison break.

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

I've been clear that Brexit means Brexit.

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.