Another senior figure quits UK Government over Brexit

The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has suffered a new blow to his authority with the resignation of a senior cabinet minister in protest at his handling of Brexit. Amber Rudd (who was Work and Pensions Secretary ) said that despite the PM's assurances, she no longer believed that his main objective was to negotiate Britain's departure from the European Union. She described Mr Johnson's decision to expel twenty-one Conservative MPs from the party for opposing a no-deal Brexit in a Commons vote last week as 'an assault on decency and democracy'.

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(Picture: Former UK Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd. Credit: Leal- Olivas / Getty)