100 Quotes by Ed Davey

People need to understand what a party is about. And you can't define a party by an issue which will go, which is transitional.

Any genuine progressive should work together to stop Brexit - this is a national emergency, requiring national cooperation.

Brexiteers often hark back to the blitz. Maybe they think the 'Britain standing alone' motif adds much-needed heroic purpose to a Brexit future in which Britain stands without trading partners or allies to tackle climate change.

What's most disappointing about May's failure on climate change is that Britain played such a pivotal role in securing international agreement on it in the first place.

We should be redoubling our own efforts to combat climate change, not watering them down.

We should be working with our European allies, not turning them into opponents.

Putting Michael Gove in charge of the Department of the Environment is much like putting a wolf in charge of the chicken coop.

When I was energy and climate change secretary I sat around a cabinet table with Gove, and he couldn't help playing to the Tory climate-sceptic audience. As education secretary, he tried to ban climate change from the geography curriculum. After an angry exchange of letters with me, he eventually backed down.

Climate change remains the biggest threat to our civilisation, economy and security - even bigger than Brexit.