The opposition Labour Party of the United Kingdom has accused Prime Minister Theresa May of stubbornly rejecting to step down from office over a controversial European Union divorce agreement, saying the premier had no longer the authority to conclude Brexit talks in the face of back-to-back resignations of ministers from her government.
Jon Trickett, a member of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s senior team, said on Thursday that Brexit secretary Dominic Raab’s resignation earlier in the day in protest to a draft Brexit deal with the EU showed that May was even unable to convince senior members of her own cabinet about her Brexit strategy.
“The Government is falling apart before our eyes as for a second time the Brexit secretary has refused to back the Prime Minister’s Brexit plan,” said Trickett, making a reference to a resignation in July by former Brexit minister David Davis who came after May announced her Brexit plans for the first…