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Brexit Update: Six cabinet members quit on U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May

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Theresa May at her press conference. Photograph: Matt Dunham/PA

 

Dominic Raab and Esther McVey are among six who have quit so far on Thursday  after Theresa May secured cabinet backing for her Brexit agreement.

 

Berwick MP Anne-Marie Trevelyan resigned as a parliamentary private secretary in the Department for Education, saying she cannot support the Brexit deal after negotiations ‘built on the UK trying to appease the EU’.

 

Brexit minister Suella Braverman Braverman has resigned from Department Exiting the European Union on Thursday, following her boss Dominic Raab.

 

Nikki Da Costa Costa resigned as Downing Street’s director of legislative affairs.

 

Meanwhile, Shailesh Vara, a minister for Northern Ireland, informed Downing Street of his resignation on Thursday morning, saying the deal leaves the UK “in a half-way house with no time limit” on when it can fully leave the EU.

 

The pound fell more than 1% against the dollar to $1.2798 and dropped more than 1% against the euro to €1.1313 after Brexit resignations.

 

The prime minister has been faced with 20 resignations from her government since last November.

Lloyd M’bwana

I’m a Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resource (LUANAR)’s Environmental Science graduate (Malawi) and UK’s ICM Journalism and Media studies scholar. Also University of Malawi (UNIMA) Library Science Scholar. I have been The Malawi Country Manager and duty editor for the Maravi Post since 2019. My duty editor’s job is to ensure that the news is covered properly, that it is delivered on time, and that it is created to the standards set out in the editorial guidelines of the Maravi Post.


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One response to “Brexit Update: Six cabinet members quit on U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May”

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    Pedegu

    Mr Chilima learn from what your friends have done in the UK???Kumangolubwalubwa basi.

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