INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Boris Johnson quit- hours after Brexit minister David Davis did the same in protest at plansLONDON: Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson quit on
Monday over Prime Minister Theresa May's plans to leave the European Union, the second resignation in a day leaving the British leader's
Brexit plans all but in tatters.After a day when the foreign secretary cancelled meetings for crisis talks at his official residence in
central London, Johnson decided to walk from his job - just hours after May's Brexit minister David Davis did the same in protest at her
plans.The two resignations leave May badly exposed at the top of a government unable to unite over Britain's biggest foreign and trading
policy shift in almost half a decade.It also puts a question mark over whether the leader will try to weather it and stand firm in her
commitment to pursue a "business friendly" Brexit, or will be faced with more resignations and calls to quit herself."This afternoon, the
Prime Minister accepted the resignation of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary," May's spokesman said in a statement
"His replacement will be announced shortly
The Prime Minister thanks Boris for his work."The departures raise the stakes for May, who secured a hard-won agreement with her deeply
divided cabinet of ministers on Friday to keep the closest possible trading ties with the EU.Many eurosceptics are angry, saying the agreed
strategy betrays her promise for a clean break with the EU, raising the prospect that some could try to unseat her.© Thomson Reuters
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