Adonis quits his government role to combat Brexit

CONTROVERSIAL Labour peer Lord Adonis came under fire last night after quitting his paid Government post to “relentlessly fight” Britain’s departure from the European Union.

Government sources said he had stepped down as chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission before he was “pushed”.

Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen had called earlier this year for the peer to be sacked from the job for comparing the “error of Brexit” to that of appeasing Hitler.

Last night Mr Bridgen said: “It’s great news that he’s going but he should have been sacked, really. This is what you get when you employ a Labour peer in a Conservative government post. Good riddance to him.”

Fellow Tory MP Peter Bone said: “He might like to be a dictator but thank goodness we have a democracy and the British people have spoken.”

A Government source said: “He’s been moving closer towards the exit door with each new onslaught he makes against Brexit. He’s now walked through the door before he was pushed.”

Lord Adonis set out his views in a strongly worded draft resignation letter addressed to Theresa May. In it, he said: “The EU (Withdrawal) Bill is the worst legislation of my lifetime. It arrives soon in the House of Lords and I feel duty bound to oppose it relentlessly from the Labour benches.”