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Establishment ‘in crisis’ over Brexit
EU ambassador’s resignation shows Foreign Office ‘can’t cope’

SIR Ivan Rogers’s resignation as British ambassador to the EU shows that the Establishment is in “crisis” over Brexit, the chair of the Left Leave (Lexit) campaign told the Star yesterday.

Alex Gordon said that the “intensely” pro-EU Foreign Office has been unable to cope in the aftermath of last year’s referendum and that left-wing organisations and parties should use the Leave vote to further causes for working people.

Pro-Brexit politicians have criticised Mr Rogers’s approach to the job after he quit just over two months before Article 50 is scheduled to be invoked at the end of March.

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