Will the last person to leave the Cabinet please turn out the lights?
MAY ROCKED BY MASS RESIGNATIONS AS DOMINIC RAAB AND ESTHER McVEY QUIT MPs SHARPEN THEIR KNIVES WITH OPEN CALLS FOR LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE
THERESA MAY was in crisis today after a series of ministerial resignations over her deal to leave the EU, including Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab.
Sterling plunged as Mr Raab quit the Cabinet saying he could not “in good conscience” sup- port a deal that broke promises to voters. Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey followed an hour later with a personal attack on the Prime Minister for accepting a deal that failed to meet “the tests you set from the outset of your premiership”.
Suella Braverman, Brexit minister at the Department for Exiting the EU, was next to go. Northern Ireland minister Shailesh Vara went at 7.30am, protesting that Mrs May’s terms left the “shackles” to the European Union in place.
Another Cabinet minister, Penny Mordaunt, was tipped to be on the way out after demanding in Cabinet a free vote on the deal, which would probably kill it. The International Devel- opment Secretary is said to have asked to see Mrs May in private.
Ominously, a source close to Michael Gove, the big beast Brexiteer who sided with Mrs May in yesterday’s Cabinet showdown, declined to give guidance on his current