Brexit exit for UK Secretary

BREXIT Secretary David Davis has resigned because he was not willing to be “a reluctant conscript” to Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to leave the European Union, delivering a blow to a British leader struggling to end divisions among her ministers. The resignation has been praised by Brexit campaigners.

BREXIT Secretary David Davis has resigned because he was not willing to be “a reluctant conscript” to Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to leave the European Union, delivering a blow to a British leader struggling to end divisions among her ministers.

The resignation has been praised by Brexit campaigners in Ms May’s Conservative Party, who believed her plan for trading ties with the EU had betrayed their desire for a clean break with the bloc.

His resignation seemed to spur on others, with Steve Baker, a junior MP quitting just two days after Ms May held a crisis meeting to overcome divisions over Brexit.

There is just nine months before Britain leaves and just over three before the EU says it wants a deal.

“The general direction of policy will leave us in at best a weak negotiating position,” Mr Davis (left) said in his resignation letter to Ms May.

He criticised Ms May’s decision to maintain a “common rule book” with the EU, mirroring the bloc’s rules and regulations, saying it would hand “control of large swathes of our economy to the EU and is not returning control of our laws”.

Ms May replied to his letter to say she did not agree “with your characterisation of the policy we agreed at cabinet on Friday”.