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Jo Johnson quits government over Brexit

JO JOHNSON became the eighteenth minister of Prime Minister Theresa May’s government to quit after he resigned today.

The pro-EU transport minister and Orpington MP called for the public to have a final say on Brexit because the withdrawal agreement Ms May is trying to agree with the EU is “a terrible mistake.”

He added that Britain was “barrelling towards an incoherent Brexit that is going to leave us trapped in a subordinate relationship to the EU.”

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