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Boris Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary just hours after David Davis walked away from the cabinet. The outspoken Brexiter joins a long list of MPs to quit Theresa May's cabinet, leaving the PM in dire straits. David Davis and his junior minister Steve Baker resigned their positions on Sunday night, and now Johnson has walked away in what is thought to be a protest over the Brexit policy she agreed with ministers at Chequers on Friday. Johnson, the most high-profile...

Resigned Brexit Secretary 7/1 to replace Theresa May After his surprise resignation as Brexit Secretary last night, David Davis, at 7/1 with Betway, is one of the frontrunners to replace Theresa May as Tory leader. With Davis now out of a job, his name has been added to an ever-growing list of potential leadership candidates to replace May on the back of the Chequers summit which she hosted. The current Prime Minister is now odds-on at 1/2 to face a...

Theresa May has appointed someone who think British workers are 'lazy' and threatens rights including the minimum wage says GMB Dominic Raab, the newly appointed Brexit Secretary, needs to be held account for his previous comments denigrating British workers and proposals to weaken rights including the minimum wage says GMB. The Cabinet Minister, appointed by Prime Minister Theresa May today to lead Brexit negotiations after the resignation of David Davis, is the co-author of the hard-right 'Britannia Unchained' manifesto in...

As David Davis resigned from his Brexit role, Twitter came alive and it was almost impossible to find anything positive to say about him, so here are a selection of some of the best Tweets on the subject. Enjoy, unless you are David of course.   David Davis. You’re leaving the cabinet. Let’s have a look at your best bits: pic.twitter.com/K4rLwIENhR— David Schneider (@davidschneider) July 9, 2018 Brexit always made more sense as a protest position for a rabble of...

The pro-Brexit former housing minister appointed following David Davis’s resignation

A Tory backbencher has revealed that Theresa May could be on her way out after David Davis resigned as the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. The Brexit secretary became the fifth cabinet minister to step down in under a year after Amber Rudd, Michael Fallon, Priti Patel and Damian Green vacated their positions. The succession of resignations has raised doubts over May's pledge to run a "strong and stable" government, and has led to rumours that her own position could be...

The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) has exited the cabinet with all attempts to appear united over Brexit in disarray. As reports emerge of Tory plots to oust Theresa May gathering pace, an opinion poll this weekend revealed that the majority of the British public would want a general election if the Conservatives dump their leader for a rival. So with confidence in the Tory leadership dissolving there are calls for a general election barely a...

This Government needs to start thinking of the lives of Britain’s workers – and their families – rather than internal Tory party bickering. GMB, the union for Jaguar Land Rover workers, has responded to the company’s warning they may have to close factories in the wake of a ‘bad’ Brexit. The UK's biggest carmaker, owned by India's Tata Motors, said its "heart and soul is in the UK". But without frictionless trade JLR said its UK £80 billion investment plans...

The Government must urgently reconsider the rollout of Universal Credit (UC) and heed the growing warnings about the damage the policy has caused, IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has said. The call follows an intervention by the National Audit Office (NAO), who highlighted a series of inaccuracies made in an address by Esther McVey, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. Jordan Marshall, IPSE’s Policy Development Manager, commented: “It’s extremely concerning that the Government continues to assert...