Jeremy Hunt Quotes

We want Brexit to make Britain more global, and not more insular

So for these and other reasons I believe it is time for the next Strategic Defence and Security Review to ask whether, over the coming decade, we should decisively increase the proportion of GDP we devote to defence

If you turn the EU club into a prison, the desire to get out of it won't diminish, it will grow and we won't be the only prisoner that will want to escape.

[<nowiki/>David Cameron] and I would like to have a relationship with Europe where we can stay in the European Union and be confident we can be successful in the global race

I used to be a Latin dancer – with no great skill! [...] But when I was elected as an MP and I was still a young single man, I used to wear a t-shirt under my suit. And when we did the last vote 10 o'clock in the evening, I would then hop into my car and drive to a Lambada club, take off my suit like Superman, and get on the dance floor.

[I am] passionately committed to the [UK] Union

Both of us would be crucified by our base if we went into a general election having promised that we would respect the referendum result and not having respected it

[I have the business experience to secure a Brexit agreement.] Doing deals is my bread and butter

Britain has long championed international religious freedom

I firmly believe that after the deal the prime minister negotiated in Europe, Britain will be better off and more secure if we remain a member of the EU. The settlement secures special status for Britain giving us a stronger voice and platform for freedom, democracy and human rights. It also means our sovereignty and the British Pound are protected and will ensure that as part of the EU we carry more weight and influence on future important decisions.

[There is an] existential risk to our party unless we now come together and get Brexit done

I will mitigate the impact of a no-deal Brexit on you and step in to help smooth those short-term difficulties. If we could do it for the bankers in the financial crisis, we can do it for our fisherman, farmers and small businesses now.

There is one very big difference between me and Boris, which is that I am foreign secretary and I have a very big job to do to try and get this deal over the line and that has to be my focus. I think that what matters is we have a cabinet that believes in Brexit.

The mother chose to leave a free country to join a terrorist organisation

I would never pay any price if it meant that Scotland would become independent.