London — British Prime Minister Theresa May forced her most senior minister, Damian Green, to resign on Wednesday after an internal investigation found that he had made misleading comments about pornography found on computers in his parliamentary office. The resignation of one of May’s most trusted allies, who had helped pacify her deeply divided party, is a blow to May as she navigates the final year of tortuous Brexit negotiations before Britain’s exit from the EU in March 2019. Green, who voted to stay in the EU, was appointed as first secretary of state just six months ago in a bid to shore up May’s premiership in the wake of her disastrous bet on a June snap election which lost her party its majority in parliament. But Green’s future was thrust into doubt when the Sunday Times newspaper reported last month that police in 2008 had found pornography on his office computers in the Houses of Parliament. In response, Green said that the story was untrue. A review, requested by May a...
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