When the week began, there was speculation that a group of ministers would resign over Theresa May’s Brexit stance. The Prime Minister had been warned that up to 22 members of government could quit unless she promised the chance for MPs to extend Article 50 if no deal looks likely. In the end, May blinked and paved the way for such a vote if her deal is rejected in two weeks’ time. However, that decision has led to a government resignation that few were expecting.
This afternoon George Eustice resigned as Defra minister over May’s promise to allow MPs a vote on delaying Brexit if her deal is rejected. In his resignation letter, Eustice said he worried that May’s offer could lead to ‘a sequence of events culminating in the EU dictating the terms of any extension requested and the final humiliation of our country’.
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