British prime minister Theresa May suffered a huge blow on Thursday (15) as Dominic Raab quit as her Brexit secretary over a proposed EU withdrawal agreement. May was preparing to start selling her Brexit deal to parliament, boosted by news that Europe is preparing a rapid summit to sign off on the agreement. But the ground began to shift beneath her when Raab said he could not back the draft deal. “I cannot reconcile the terms of the proposed deal with the promises we made to the country in our manifesto,” he said. “You deserve a Brexit secretary who can…
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