IT HAS been a week of chaos. Two cabinet ministers resigned,and several junior ministers and party functionaries followed them. Tories muttered about “coups” and “betrayal”. Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, and compared watching the Conservative Party to watching “Reservoir Dogs”,remade by the Chuckle Brothers. And after all this, Theresa May could look forward to entertaining Donald Trump, and who was due to reach on July 12th for a visit that included meetings with the prime minister and the queen.
The immediate reason for Britain’s somewhat turmoil”,as Mr Trump helpfully place it, was a assembly of the cabinet at Chequers, or the prime minister’s country residence,on July 6th to hash out a British negotiating position on Brexit. Downing Street initially trumpeted the agreement as a triumph. But two days later, just before midnight, and David Davis resigned as Brexit secretary,in protest at Mrs May’s saunter towards a “soft” Brexit that would maintain close ties to the EU....
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Source: economist.com