Theresa May appoints new Brexit secretary after David Davis quits
Davis denies he quit in an attempt to unseat the prime minister, saying he could not back her ‘dangerous’ plans
London — British Prime Minister Theresa May has named Brexit campaigner Dominic Raab as her new Brext secretary, after David Davis’s late-night resignation. Davis said on Monday he had resigned over "dangerous" British government plans for leaving the EU in a blow to Prime Minister Theresa May that could complicate already fraught Brexit negotiations. Davis, who campaigned for Brexit in Britain’s 2016 referendum, said that a hard-won agreement with her cabinet team of ministers had given "too much away, too easily" to EU negotiators, who, he feared, would simply ask for more. His late-night departure, followed by one other minister in the Brexit department, raises the stakes for May, who was buoyed on Friday after thrashing out a deal with her cabinet to keep the closest possible trading ties with the EU. Many eurosceptics have expressed anger over the agreed negotiating stance, calling it a betrayal of her promise for a clean break with the bloc that has raised the prospect that so...
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