Gladys Berejiklian Quotes

Brexit is a major concern for us, and it should be a major concern for all of us who live in the U.K. and operate out of the U.K.

Even if the Brits decide to remain, we will have to avoid a contagion on other countries.

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.

I was fully aware of the challenges facing London before I was elected as mayor, but I didn't anticipate the issue that is likely to define my time as mayor - Brexit.

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

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.

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.

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

When we were told Brexit meant taking back powers for Parliament, no one told my constituents this meant the French parliament and the German parliament, not our own.

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 do not believe that as a country we are completely ill-prepared for no-deal Brexit. It is not the optimal solution it is not the best outcome for Britain, we will do much better than people expect.

So much of the agenda behind Brexit has been murky.

There is no form of Brexit that will be good for our country but a no-deal Brexit will be the most catastrophic of them all.

I said a vote to leave would be a Brexit tax. I couldn't think of anything stronger than that.

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

I think one of the laughable things about poor old Brexit is that they're so cross - they're furious with everyone. But this isn't a cross country; this is a generous and optimistic country.

No one needs to fear our decision to leave the E.U. We will do so carefully, reassuring our European friends and those businesses who are worrying about change.

I think Brexit is disappointing from an economic perspective.

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.

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.

A U.K. vote to exit the European Union could have significant economic repercussions.

When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating, that there would be a financial meltdown, I think it's been proven that they were not exaggerating.

I fear a very hard Brexit, but I hope we will find a better solution.

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