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British Prime Minister Suffers Severe Blow Over Brexit As Ministers Quit

Britain’s prime minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street in London to give a statement on the draft Brexit deal in the House of Commons on November 15, 2018. (Photo: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images).

By: Radhakrishna N S

British prime minister Theresa May’s Brexit secretary and other ministers quit one by one on Thursday (15), striking at the heart of a draft divorce deal with the European Union she is struggling to save. Just over 12 hours after May announced that her team of top ministers had agreed to the terms of the draft agreement, Brexit minister Dominic Raab and work and pensions minister Esther McVey quit, saying they could not support it. Their departure and the resignations of two junior ministers shakes May’s divided government. Raab is the second Brexit secretary to quit over May’s plans to…

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