Jon Trickett MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, responding to the resignation of the Brexit Secretary, said:

“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. This so-called deal has unravelled before our eyes.

“This is the twentieth Minister to resign from Theresa May’s Government in her two year premiership. Theresa May has no authority left and is clearly incapable of delivering a Brexit deal that commands even the support of her Cabinet – let alone Parliament and the people of our country.”