There is light at the end of the tunnel... but we are still in the tunnel at the moment. - Philip Hammond

[No-deal Brexit would be] just as much a betrayal of the referendum result as not leaving at all

I remember 20 years ago we were worrying about what was going to happen to the million shorthand typists in Britain as the personal computer took over. Well, nobody has a shorthand typist these days, but where are all these unemployed people? There are no unemployed people because we have created 3.5m new jobs since 2010.

I take the judgement that when there is a deal on the table that has very, very modest costs to the economy, which will allow us to move on as a nation both economically and politically, I judge that even narrowly, economically that will be in the best interests of the country