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The Conservative Party that I have served has always had room for a wide range of opinions and has been tolerant of measured dissent.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I shall be voting against him. This is not the time to be holding a general election, it is a time for cool heads and grown up government, the government should stop making threats, stop throwing tantrums and get on with the grown up business of doing its business.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There would certainly be the fight of a lifetime if they tried to (stop me).
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The pivot from demanding changes to the( Irish) backstop to demanding its total removal is a pivot from a tough negotiating stance to a wrecking one, the unelected people who pull the strings of this government know that this is a demand the EU can not, and will not, accede to.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
To remain a dominant player we in the UK must do what London's markets have always done: evolve.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The irony of course is that this is the government that has just led the world by committing to a zero-carbon economy.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I've been in parliament for 22 years and I have never once voted against the Conservative whip so it's not something I would do lightly or enthusiastically. But I am very clear that the national interest trumps the party interest, if I am presented with a difficult choice I will act in what I believe is the best interest of this country.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
President Xi made a speech this morning in which he committed China to all of those things and set out his vision for the next stage of Belt and Road and we will be looking very carefully at how that is operationalized.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's essential that we get the balance right, ensuring that our networks are built in a way that is secure against interference from whatever source, but also are competitive.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There may be some candidates who might be deterred from an application because of the political debate around Brexit, which inevitably the governor of the Bank of England can't avoid being part of.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
(A second referendum) in the end is an issue about parliament and parliamentary numbers, and where the Labour Party ends up on this, as the Labour Party itself is deeply divided on this issue and at some point will have to decide on where it stands.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's a proposition that could and, on all the evidence, is very likely to be put to parliament at some stage.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I remain optimistic that over the next couple of months we will get a deal done.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Most of the colleagues that I am talking to accept we will need longer to complete this process, i am optimistic about the Council on Wednesday.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The conversations with the Labour party are continuing, i am optimistic that we will reach some form of agreement with Labour.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I am optimistic that we will reach some form of agreement with Labour.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It is a perfectly credible proposition that deserves to be tested in Parliament.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If that is the case then parliament will have to decide not just what it's against but what it is for.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I'm not sure there's a majority in parliament in support of a second referendum, many people will be strongly opposed to it, but it's a coherent proposition and it deserves to be considered along with the other proposals.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
One way or another Parliament is going to have the opportunity this week to decide what it is in favor of, and I hope that it will take that opportunity -- if it can't get behind the Prime Minister's deal -- to say clearly and unambiguously what it can get behind.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We also have a duty to ensure that the country can move forward and that will mean that we have to compromise, nobody is going to get their perfect Brexit out of this. We have to have a Brexit that represents a compromise that reflects the fact that actually the nation was divided pretty much down the middle in the referendum in 2016.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If we don't have a deal, and if we're still discussing among ourselves what is the right way to go forward, then it's quite possible that the EU may insist on a significantly longer period.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This is not in our control and the European Union is signaling that only if we have a deal is it likely to be willing to grant a short technical extension to get the legislation through, if we don't have a deal, and if we're still discussing among ourselves what is the right way to go forward, then it's quite possible that the EU may insist on a significantly longer period.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Our partners in the EU need to be at their pragmatic best in helping to avoid the mutual calamity of no deal; and you – and we – need to carry on explaining the implications of a no deal exit, no matter who cries 'Project Fear'.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It will be carefully designed to ensure it is established tech giants, rather than our tech start-ups, that shoulder the burden.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I saw that the president was nodding furiously last night as she was speaking last night and I'm sure there will be a very positive discussion between them today.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The president hasn't yet had a chance to discuss with the prime minister the white paper, which was after all only published yesterday, and I know she's looking forward to the opportunity to discuss with the president how we can take forward the big opportunities for increasing trade and investment between the UK and the United States that she mentioned last night during the dinner at Blenheim, i saw that the president was nodding furiously last night as she was speaking last night and I'm sure there will be a very positive discussion between them today.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I very much hope that we can avoid a full scale trade war (because) that would be a disaster for everyone, not least for the United States, but what I can say is this: whatever happens the UK will remain an outspoken proponent of open markets and free trade, low tariff barriers and low non-tariff barriers.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The plan has always been to work as a core member of the Galileo project, contributing financially and technically to the project. If that proves impossible then Britain will have to go it alone, possibly with other partners outside Europe and the U.S., to build a third competing system, for national security strategic reasons we need access to a system and we'll ensure that we get it.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
What it does is underscore the hit to confidence that the uncertainty following the referendum decision has created.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If our European Union partners respond to such a vision positively - obviously it will be subject to negotiation - so that there is a sense perhaps later this year that we are all on the same page in terms of where we expect to be going. I think that will send a reassuring signal to the business community and to markets.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have to be ready as government, the Bank of England has to be ready as monetary authority, throughout that period to respond to any instability created by that uncertainty and to ensure that the economy continues to operate smoothly.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What will start to reduce uncertainty is when we are able to set out more clearly the kind of arrangement we envisage going forward with the European Union, if our European Union partners respond to such a vision positively - obviously it will be subject to negotiation - so that there is a sense perhaps later this year that we are all on the same page in terms of where we expect to be going. I think that will send a reassuring signal to the business community and to markets.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The newly established fintech bridge between the UK and the Republic of Korea is an important step for one of this country's most exciting industries, the government is determined to help the UK fintech sector to innovate and grow and to ensure that Britain remains the location of choice for fintech start-ups.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Of course we've got to reduce the deficit further but looking at how and when and at what pace we do that, and how we measure our progress in doing that is something that we now need to consider in the light of the new circumstances that the economy is facing.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We're working together across that referendum divide in the party to deliver the best possible deal for Britain. I think confidence will gradually begin to return and people will start to see the shape of the future that we're mapping out.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Markets do need signals of reassurance, they need to know that we will do whatever is necessary to keep the economy on track, we're working together across that referendum divide in the party to deliver the best possible deal for Britain. I think confidence will gradually begin to return and people will start to see the shape of the future that we're mapping out.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There are some of my colleagues in the Conservative party at the moment saying things like 'It'll be straightforward to agree access to the single market and there'll be no need to have freedom of movement,' i'm afraid they are simply betraying a lack of understanding of the political realities in the European Union. It will be much more complicated than that.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
During the course of today there has been significant progress in the task of building a coalition in parliament in favor of air strikes in Syria and ensuring that when it comes to a vote that coalition is able to find its voice.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This isn't just about cooperating with the French authorities - it's about cooperating across Europe with intelligence agencies, with police authorities to ensure that we intercept these people, we identify them and we prevent them going about their murderous plans wherever they are planning and plotting and wherever they are seeking to attack.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Remember, thousands of British servicemen died in the Second World War in Asia and it's right that we commemorate that.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We need to reflect on the fact that unlike in Western Europe, the process of reconciliation is not yet complete.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We want to see claims dealt with by rules-based, not power-based, solutions in Asia as elsewhere, in a way that is consistent with the long-term peace and stability of the region, with freedom of navigation and overflight, and in accordance with international law.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The international community will not stand by while Houthi forces and other actors continue to undermine stability in Yemen and seek to fragment that country and undermine its legitimate president.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We will prepare possible new sanctions, which could be imposed quickly if there is further Russian aggression or if the Minsk agreement is not complied with.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The European Union will remain united on the question of sanctions, sanctions must remain in place until there is full compliance (with the Minsk agreement), we will prepare possible new sanctions, which could be imposed quickly if there is further Russian aggression or if the Minsk agreement is not complied with.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is one of the last opportunities that Russia will have to avoid yet further significant damage to its economy that is bound to happen if the intransigence of Vladimir Putin forces the rest of the world to increase and tighten the sanctions.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This man (Putin) has sent troops across an international border and occupied another country's territory in the 21st century acting like some mid-20th century tyrant. Civilized nations do not behave like that.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If your economy is cratering you cannot support the kind of foreign adventures that Putin is undertaking. You cannot support the kind of security state structure that he has generated and that he needs to keep him there, he will have to trim his behavior to reflect the decline in the Russian economy.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Ukrainians can't beat the Russian army, that's not a practical proposition. There has to be a political solution, this man (Putin) has sent troops across an international border and occupied another country's territory in the 21st century acting like some mid-20th century tyrant. Civilized nations do not behave like that.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This isn't going to be done in three months or six months. It's going to take a year, two years to push ISIL (IS) back out of Iraq but we are doing the things that need to be done in order to turn the tide.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
It will be months yet before they are ready to start significant combat operations.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
We deplore this punishment, the deputy foreign minister of Saudi Arabia will be here in London on Thursday and I will be speaking to him directly on this issue. We have already made our views known to the Saudi authorities at the highest level.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
It is in everybody's interests that Bosnia-Herzegovina seizes this opportunity.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
What the EU has put on the table is a good offer and I would say to you candidly, it is an unrepeatable offer, it is in everybody's interests that Bosnia-Herzegovina seizes this opportunity.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
It is entirely appropriate for NATO countries in particular to work together to respond to what is a change of Russia's dealings with NATO and indeed the non-NATO European countries.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
I condemn this appalling attack on innocent civilians supporting our diplomatic activity, this outrage brings home to us once again the courage and perseverance of the people of Afghanistan and members of the international community who support them, who have lived together through decades of conflict.
Found on CNN 10 years ago
We have had to conclude it is not possible to get to an agreement by the deadline that was set.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
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