Barry Gardiner

Pluralism has been the driving fact behind political theory now since the Copernican revolution and the wars of religion that were spawned…

— Barry Gardiner

We as politicians have to understand that the greatest threats to our security are no longer conventional military ones. You cannot nuke…

— Barry Gardiner

Like air pollution, flood risk is a threat that government should be protecting us against.

— Barry Gardiner

Fracking locks the U.K. into an industry that is based on fossil fuels long after our country needs to have moved to…

— Barry Gardiner

Leaders get things wrong. Of course they do. They have imperfect information. They face competing political pressures. Ultimately they are human.

— Barry Gardiner

Fear is a treacherous leader. It shrinks from the new and fails to meet the challenges of the future.

— Barry Gardiner

Labour opposes the principle of companies having their own private and privileged courts in which to settle investor-state disputes.

— Barry Gardiner

It used to be an article of faith held across parliament that the government should be 'technology neutral' to achieve cost-effective decarbonisation.

— Barry Gardiner

The problem with climate change has always been that whilst political timeframes and economic investment timeframes work on a 3-5year cycle, the…

— Barry Gardiner

The Paris Agreement makes it impossible for any country or any sector to say climate change isn't their problem. It has created…

— Barry Gardiner

The direct risks from climate change are obvious: as changing weather patterns cause extremes of flood and drought, hurricanes and typhoons. These…

— Barry Gardiner

The most important thing to understand about Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change agreement is, whilst it undeniably damages the rest…

— Barry Gardiner

The media when it focuses on climate change at all, does so in terms of carbon emissions and how to reduce them.…

— Barry Gardiner

The less money you have the more likely you are to live close to polluted roads. Most of us cannot choose to…

— Barry Gardiner

MPs should be able to debate, amend and approve a mandate for the negotiation of any trade agreement before talks start, based…

— Barry Gardiner

The U.K. should see overseas aid as an investment in the future potential of a market and shouldn't be used as a…

— Barry Gardiner

A Brexit that works for Britain needs to work for small businesses and must ensure that our future trade deals don't just…

— Barry Gardiner

Climate change brings increasingly frequent and severe weather patterns and this means more floods.

— Barry Gardiner

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

— Barry Gardiner

The mark of a bad leader is not to make the wrong decision. It is to make no decision at all.

— Barry Gardiner

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

— Barry Gardiner

Doing nothing to stop national parks being drilled for oil isn't what climate leadership looks like.

— Barry Gardiner

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

— Barry Gardiner

Whether you're a banker or a botanist - the economic benefits of a clean energy revolution are compelling.

— Barry Gardiner

A well-functioning judicial or education system is just as much part of the wealth of a nation as its roads, ports and…

— Barry Gardiner

The Paris Agreement is a highly significant step in tackling climate change - but a piece of paper will not save the…

— Barry Gardiner

We want trade agreements that aid development and increase prosperity, growth and productivity at home and in our trade partner countries.

— Barry Gardiner

An efficient economy does not perpetuate the misallocation of capital - it punishes it.

— Barry Gardiner

Climate change is a shared crisis - one that transcends politics and borders and must be fought collectively, justly and transparently.

— Barry Gardiner

When I was a child my mother used to pay me half a crown - 12.5 pence - to wash her car…

— Barry Gardiner

Most people are surprised to find out that the myth of the crowded little island is just that - a myth.

— Barry Gardiner

You cannot send battleships in to stop the destruction of a rainforest. But you can spend money on clean technology transfer that…

— Barry Gardiner

Climate change is real and anthropogenic; and the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC has left the deniers little room for manoeuvre,…

— Barry Gardiner

Like so many free trade deals before and since, Nafta was sold as a massive opportunity for working people and their prospects.…

— Barry Gardiner

Leaving the E.U. with no trade deal is the worst possible option. It will condemn British exporters to the full range of…

— Barry Gardiner

U.K. aid spending in India is that it ensures that we are able to work with our partners to develop their markets,…

— Barry Gardiner

The Tories are trying to lock the country into the old, dirty technologies that harm our communities and the people who are…

— Barry Gardiner

Dictators have an old trick to assess the strength of their opposition: they say something patently untrue, and then look to see…

— Barry Gardiner

Labour must evince a positive vision for the future of our country outside the E.U. One that is consistent with the leave…

— Barry Gardiner

Labour's Climate Change Act and our other reforms, including the Green Investment Bank, have been the foundation for the huge growth of…

— Barry Gardiner