Theresa May left RED-FACED after SEVENTH Brexit resignation deals DEVASTATING blow
THERESA May was dealt a devastating blow after her Universities and Science Minister resigns over her Brexit deal as she scrambles to gather support for the Parliamentary vote next month.
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Sam Gyimah resigned after saying that he could not support Mrs May’s proposed withdrawal agreement. Mr Gyimah wrote in the Telegraph that he could not support the Prime Minister’s “naive” deal with Brussels because it was “not in the national interest”. Mr Gyimah had previously campaigned for the UK to remain part of the EU during the referendum.
He is the seventh minister to resign from the Government following the unveiling of the proposed agreement.
In his article, he argued that supporting the deal would “set ourselves up for failure” as it would surrender “our voice, our vote and our veto”.
He wrote: "Britain will end up worse off, transformed from rule makers into rule takers.
"It is a democratic deficit and a loss of sovereignty the public will rightly never accept.”
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During the G20 summit in Argentina, Mrs May refused to directly answer questions if she would resign should the deal be voted down on December 11.
She told reporters: "I have been asked these sorts of questions before.
"I'm tempted to think the price of coming on one of these trips is asking questions about my future, because they come up every time and my answers aren't going to change."
However, after the resignation of one of her earliest supporters for the leadership, she has been left looking increasingly exposed.
Mr Gyimah argued that the Prime Minister’s “compromise” agreement would do nothing to bring the country back together in the way that she was hoping.
He also called on her to not “dismiss out of hand” the possibility of a second referendum.
He wrote: "What is being presented to the public as a sensible compromise Brexit deal, a 52/48 Brexit as some call it, will not bring closure or heal the divisions of Brexit.
"In the fullness of time, the public will wake up to what this so-called deal entails; neither leave nor remain voters will be pleased with a deal that leaves us poorer, less secure and weaker in the pursuit of our national interests."
Not all of her ministers are against the deal though.
Environment secretary Michael Grove urged Brexiteers to support the deal.
In an article for the Daily Mail, he wrote that Brexit would be “in peril” should the agreement be voted down.
He wrote: "Does the deal deliver 100% of what I wanted? No.
"But then we didn't win 100% of the vote. You can't always get everything that you want."