"Brexit was an attempt by the British public...to reassert their belief in the nation state - I voted Brexit like most of my fellow countrymen, and I did so I think for the same reasons as most of them which is that I thought we'd lost our understanding of how we were governed"

"Parliament is elected by the people, accountable to the people, and if they let you down you can chuck them out - and this wasn't so with the European Union"

"Brexit was a shout of reassertion, that we would like to be governed in the way that we thought we were governed.

Douglas Murray, June 2019 - "the Death of Europe" (see video here)

"Apocalyptic violence engulfing France. Eurozone & now Germany in recession. Another EU lawmaker charged over corruption scandal. Populists ascendant from Austria and Germany to Sweden and Spain.

Why on earth would Britain ever re-join the EU?"

Matthew Goodwin, July 2023 (See original tweet here)

"I see [leaving the EU] as a positive, because I am looking more generally I think than the average person is at the future of Europe, and [the UK has] been, always, skin deep members of the European Union. We have believed in a shallow political union"

"Quite honestly if Macron is determined to integrate Europe politically as he states, then he really doesn't want us to be a part of it because we would be very effective in stopping his progress. What i'm really arguing is that we are offering continental Europe an opportunity - we can be very supportive of a united Europe, which will serve our interests closely - theres no disaster for the UK returning to a mid-Atlantic position which is the one we've traditionally occupied"

Sir Richard Dearlove, Former MI6 Head, December 2017 (see video here)