Jeremy Hunt Quotes

It is really important to deliver a Brexit that works not just for the 52% who voted to leave the European Union, but for the 48% who didn't

We need to deliver Brexit and my job is to make sure we have a debate about how we do that

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

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

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

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

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

If this deal is rejected, ultimately what we may end up with is not a different type of Brexit but Brexit paralysis. And Brexit paralysis ultimately could lead to no Brexit. I'm saying this would be (an) incredibly damaging breach of trust and it would also be very bad for Britain's reputation abroad, having decided to leave the EU, if we in the end for whatever reasons found we weren't able to do it.

Britain has long championed international religious freedom

The only way that we're going to get through the House of Commons and give the British people the Brexit that they voted for is to have a version of the deal that the government has negotiated.

The EU was set up to protect freedom. It was the Soviet Union that stopped people leaving.

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.

If you put us in a difficult corner, we will stand our ground - that is the kind of country we are.

Those who do not share our values need to know that there will always be a serious price to pay if red lines are crossed, whether territorial incursions, the use of banned weapons or increasingly cyber attacks