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born 1965

Sir Edward Jonathan Davey FRSA (born 25 December 1965) is a British politician who has served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats since 2020. During the Cameron–Clegg coalition, Davey served as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2012 to 2015 and, later, as Deputy Leader to Jo Swinson in 2019.

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We need to become a political home to pro-EU liberal Tories and pro-EU liberal and social democrat Labour MPs and voters.

With Brexit the very best deal they can get is worse than what we've got now.

Fixing the UK's broken relationship with the EU is even more urgent than before [to] help protect ourselves from the damage Trump will do.

Membership of a terrorist group is a serious crime, as is encouraging or supporting terrorism, but Shamima Begum should face justice for those crimes in the UK.

Europe has sent a clear and firm message to the world that ambitious climate action is needed now

People want an end to this, and the only way you can stop Brexit in a democratic exercise like a general election is to say you would revoke.

To take police numbers in England and Wales to record lows when the terrorist threat to our country is rising is a dereliction of duty by the Conservatives.

This [ending EU migration rules] will hugely increase the damage cause by a no-deal Brexit

Since the Brexit negotiations begun there's a third emotion I've been feeling - embarrassment. Embarrassment at our country's leaders. Embarrassment for Great Britain.

I want other European countries to be more ambitious... We can go green and we can do it in a cheap way. The cost of renewables has been coming down significantly.

This is a good decision by the European Parliament [to reduce the number of permits traded] and is an important step forward for climate change policy

We've already seen in the Windrush scandal how the Conservatives' hostile environment checks can destroy the lives of people who have every right to be in the UK. The government's chaotic approach to Brexit risks a repeat of that scandal for EU citizens.

There are more than a million British people living in Spain. There are hundreds of thousands of British people living in France. In fact there are tens of thousands of people living in almost every EU country and if we were to pull up the drawbridge on the English Channel, the truth is British people wouldn't be able to come and go because they'd take action against us.

[Ending EU migration rules will] do nothing to reassure the hospitals that are already seeing record numbers of EU nurses leaving, or the companies struggling to recruit the staff they need

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ed Davey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.