100 Quotes by Barry Gardiner

Our view has been that unless stringent environmental tests can be passed by would-be frackers, then no fracking should take place.

We engage in the public institutions of work and school and club and team, because it is there that we find meaning and purpose. But sometimes when we engage, we find confrontation not affirmation.

It appears that President Trump wishes to disrupt the global multilateral trading system as much as possible.

No minister should be able to whisk through Parliament agreements that are negotiated behind closed doors.

Nafta has been responsible for a race to the bottom in standards across North America, with working conditions declining along with wages.

Making the most of global trade opportunities does not mean transitioning to a low-tax, deregulatory, 'Bargain Basement' economy. It means developing a robust Industrial Strategy intertwined with a strong trade agenda.

Donald Trump spoke to the experience of ordinary working people when he dubbed Nafta the 'worst trade deal ever made.'

Poor decision making in government; the tragedy of short-term economic thinking; our national housing crisis: these are real 21st Century problems for our country. They are problems that can only be solved by genuinely fearless thinking about our natural environment.

The Tories must stop focusing on their ideological obsession with a hard Brexit and their internal party divisions and start focusing on what is best for our country and our economy. Their absurd proposal that the U.K. should become the E.U.'s tariff collector is neither practical nor palatable across the Channel.