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UK Minister resigns over May’s Brexit deal with EU
Yet another high profile public figure in the United Kingdom has thrown in the towel over Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal with the European Union.
Sam Gyimah, a UK minister for science and universities resigned on Friday over the Brexit deal becoming the sixth minister to resign from government in protest.
Gyimah noted while throwing in the towel that May’s deal meant Britain would surrender its “voice and its veto” and that the prime minister should not rule out the prospect of a second referendum.
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“It has become increasingly clear to me that the proposed deal is not in the British national interest, and that to vote for this deal is to set ourselves up for failure,” Gyimah wrote in a resignation statement published by the Daily Telegraph newspaper. “We will be losing, not taking control of our national destiny.”
His resignation comes days after May secured the agreement European Union leaders over UK’s Brexit deal at a Brussels summit.
Reports say the deal was approved by 27 leaders who took barely half an hour to rubber-stamp the 600-page treaty urging Britons to back May’s package.
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