The Brexit strategy of British Prime Minister Theresa May was dealt a serious blow Monday with the unexpected resignation of the cabinet minister directly responsible for managing the process of leaving the European Union.
David Davis declared he could not support the deal drawn up by May to unite her divided cabinet, saying it involved too close a relationship with the E.U. and gave only an illusion of control being returned to the U.K. after Brexit.
Davis told the BBC "It seems to me we're giving too much away, too easily, and that's a dangerous strategy at this time."
Dominic Raab, a junior minister for housing policy and an ardent Brexit supporter, will replace Davis as Brexit Secretary, Downing Street announced.
All eyes are now on the pro-Brexit Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who is due to make a statement late Monday afternoon. If Johnson also resigns, May's status as Prime Minister would be seriously weakened.
Davis' resignation means the consensus over a strategy for a post-Brexit deal, agreed May and her government on Friday at Chequers, the Prime Minister's country house, lasted barely three days.
