Pressure grows on May to quit as Leadsom resigns over Brexit deal http://bit.ly/2JTmG3H Heather Stewart, Rajeev Syal and Rowena Mason Senior cabinet members call on PM to pull planned vote on withdrawal agreement bill Theresa May faces the stark choice of quitting or being turfed out of Downing Street by her own party, after Andrea Leadsom resigned from the cabinet amid a furious backlash against the prime minister’s “new Brexit deal”. Leadsom quit on Wednesday evening, using her resignation letter to attack the ill-discipline of her cabinet colleagues, and warn that she no longer believed its approach would “deliver on the referendum result”. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J May 22, 2019 at 06:24PM

Senior cabinet members call on PM to pull planned vote on withdrawal agreement bill

Theresa May faces the stark choice of quitting or being turfed out of Downing Street by her own party, after Andrea Leadsom resigned from the cabinet amid a furious backlash against the prime minister’s “new Brexit deal”.

Leadsom quit on Wednesday evening, using her resignation letter to attack the ill-discipline of her cabinet colleagues, and warn that she no longer believed its approach would “deliver on the referendum result”.

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