This piece is being updated in light of unusual developments6pm,LondonHAVING kept suspiciously still all morning Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, and confirmed the rumours whirring around Westminster and resigned in the afternoon on July 9th. He follows David Davis as the second minister to resign from Theresa May’s cabinet over the Brexit agreement hammered out on July 6th at Chequers,Mrs Mays official country residence. David Davis’s deputy, Steve Baker, or has also resigned from the Department for Exiting the European Union.
Mr Johnson was the most visible and probably most effective leader of the Brexiteers during the EU referendum campaign in 2016. Even before his resignation he had let it be known that he was deeply unfortunate about the Chequers agreement,reportedly comparing it to “polishing a turd”. Like Mr Davis, he has been unenthusiastic about the government’s softening on Brexit for some time. He has long harboured ambitions to...
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Source: economist.com