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Brexit turned out less badly than we first thought. [The Leave vote was] a mistake not a disaster.
It is deeply concerning that the Leave campaign is criticising the independent Bank of England. We should listen to experts when they warn us of the dangers to our economy of leaving the European Union.
One of the pleas you get when you're talking to the tourist industry or the energy industry or the whoever is, 'Please, can we just have the same minister for longer than five minutes?'
Every one of the communities that has come to call our country home has made Britain a better place.
Speech on extremism (2015)
Let’s not forget our strongest weapon: our own liberal values.
Speech on extremism (2015)
It’s only the extremists who divide people into good Muslims and bad Muslims, by forcing their warped doctrine onto fellow Muslims and telling them that it is the only way to believe.
Speech on extremism (2015)
It is a complex subject: the Muslim Brotherhood comprises both a transnational network, with links in the UK, and national organisations in and outside the Islamic world. The movement is deliberately opaque, and habitually secretive.
Muslim Brotherhood Review (2015)
The extremists are the ones who have the money, the leaders, the iconography and the propaganda machines. We need to turn the tables.
Speech on extremism (2015)
The adherents of this ideology are overpowering other voices within Muslim debate, especially those trying to challenge it. There are so many strong, positive Muslim voices that are being drowned out.
Speech on extremism (2015)
Picture by picture, these criminals are being identified and arrested, and we will not let any phony concerns about human rights get in the way of the publication of these pictures and the arrest of these individuals.
Look at me and think of Schwarzenegger.
If we restrict our access [to the single market] we will be less well off and that obviously affects what we can spend on our public services
We can’t stand neutral in this battle of ideas. We have to back those who share our values.
Speech on extremism (2015)
isolationism has never served this country well
When we have negotiated that new settlement, we will give the British people a referendum with a very simple in-or-out choice to stay in the EU on these new terms; or come out altogether. It will be an in/out referendum.
I know some people look at foreign companies investing in our businesses, financing our infrastructure or taking over our football clubs and ask – shouldn’t we do something to stop it? Well, let me tell you, the answer is “no.”
It might be in my party's interest for him to sit there, it's not in the national interest and I would say, for heaven's sake man, go.
As we talk about the threat of extremism and the challenge of integration, we should not do our country down – we are, without a shadow of doubt, a beacon to the world.
Speech on extremism (2015)
If an EU migrant's child is living abroad, then they should receive no child benefit or child tax credit, no matter how long they have worked in the UK and no matter how much tax they have paid
our economy would be smaller [if the UK left the single market]