For all these reasons – and because of our shared values and the spirit of goodwill that exists on both sides – I am confident that we will follow a better path. I am confident that a positive agreement can be reached. It is right that the government should prepare for every eventuality – but to do so in the knowledge that a constructive and optimistic approach to the negotiations to come is in the best interests of Europe and the best interests of Britain.
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We do not approach these negotiations expecting failure, but anticipating success.文章源自英文巴士-https://www.en84.com/1720.html
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Because we are a great, global nation with so much to offer Europe and so much to offer the world.文章源自英文巴士-https://www.en84.com/1720.html
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One of the world’s largest and strongest economies. With the finest intelligence services, the bravest armed forces, the most effective hard and soft power, and friendships, partnerships and alliances in every continent.文章源自英文巴士-https://www.en84.com/1720.html
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And another thing that’s important. The essential ingredient of our success. The strength and support of 65 million people willing us to make it happen.文章源自英文巴士-https://www.en84.com/1720.html
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Because after all the division and discord, the country is coming together.文章源自英文巴士-https://www.en84.com/1720.html
The referendum was divisive at times. And those divisions have taken time to heal.
But one of the reasons that Britain’s democracy has been such a success for so many years is that the strength of our identity as one nation, the respect we show to one another as fellow citizens, and the importance we attach to our institutions means that when a vote has been held, we all respect the result. The victors have the responsibility to act magnanimously. The losers have the responsibility to respect the legitimacy of the outcome. And the country comes together.
And that is what we are seeing today. Business isn’t calling to reverse the result, but planning to make a success of it. The House of Commons has voted overwhelmingly for us to get on with it. And the overwhelming majority of people – however they voted – want us to get on with it too.
So that is what we will do.
Not merely forming a new partnership with Europe, but building a stronger, fairer, more Global Britain, too.
And let that be the legacy of our time. The prize towards which we work. The destination at which we arrive once the negotiation is done.
And let us not do it for ourselves, but for those who follow. For the country’s children and grandchildren, too.
So that when future generations look back at this time, they will judge us not only by the decision that we made, but by what we made of that decision.
They will see that we shaped them a brighter future.
They will know that we built them a better Britain.
Thank you.
