Theresa May’s new-look cabinet meets amid Brexit turmoil

What Mr Johnson plans to do remains to be see. The challenge is all very well for people to say I wouldn’t do this.

“We had a good relationship with him (Mr Johnson), (foreign minister) Julie Bishop in particular. Indeed, this work was acknowledged by the Opposition itself in Parliament”, No. 6 said.

Listen to Theresa May’s impassioned address to Parliament today – promising a return to United Kingdom sovereignty after Brexit, yet simultaneously keeping close ties to Europe (no country with an EU association agreement has so far avoided signing up to binding relations), with frictionless trade and a close customs relationship that is not a customs union (honest), while remaining free to strike the UK’s own trade deals.

That makes negotiating a deal with the European Union very hard: The bloc has said that Britain can’t pick and choose the “four freedoms” (free movement of goods, capital, services, and people) and have an “a la carte” Brexit. “And how has our Government secured Gibraltar’s corner specifically 24 months on?”

“I was elected to represent my constituents and the Prime Minister’S team needs to be aware that backbench MPs won’t sit idly by and allow a so-called “soft Brexit” with us being half-in, half-out”, Andrea Jenkyns wrote in The Daily Telegraph.

A far more familiar face here is Olly Robbins, the prime minister’s Europe adviser.

“May is fighting for her survival”, Mujtaba Rahman, a managing director at Eurasia Group, said in a research note.

The Prime Minister would have been forgiven for thinking on Sunday evening that she had managed to placate unhappy Cabinet Brexiteers at Chequers on Friday.

In a strongly worded resignation letter, he warned that the current Brexit plan meant Britain was “truly headed for the status of colony” and accused the prime minister of “sending our vanguard into battle with the white flags fluttering above them”.

Tory MPs can trigger a vote of no confidence if 48 of them submit letters to the 1922 backbencher committee, chaired by Sir Graham Brady.

Asked whether May would contest a no-confidence vote, a Downing Street source said simply: “Yes”.

Johnson had previously served as mayor of London and a lawmaker.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, a charismatic and divisive cheerleader for Britain’s exit from the European Union, resigned Monday. His replacement will be announced shortly.

Matt Hancock replaced Hunt as health secretary, while Attorney General Jeremy Wright was appointed as minister of digital culture, media and sport, Hancock’s old job.

Having made it to the final two candidates following the resignation of David Cameron two years ago, Leadsom was forced to pull out of the race after suggesting she would make a better leader than May because she is a mother.

“The country is at a standstill with a divided and shambolic Government”.

In June this year he urged Mrs May to deliver a “full British Brexit”, and not something that was “half-hearted”.

Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage welcomed Mr Johnson’s decision on Twitter, saying: “Bravo Boris Johnson. Party or country, career or principle?” “Brussels must not mistakenly conclude, as EU Council chief Donald Tusk hinted, that one more push will destroy Brexit”. Nobody would assume they would go in and walk out with the same agreement.