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Is the British government collapsing? Sunday night, Brexit Minister David Davis resigned. Now follows the second heavyweight. Boris Johnson announces his allegiance to Prime Minister May.
22:08, 09 July 2018
The British Foreign Secretary and strict Brexit supporter Boris Johnson resigned. This was announced by the British government on Monday. The former British Minister of Health Jeremy Hunt becomes the new Minister of Foreign Affairs. Shortly before, the Minister of Brexit David Davis had resigned and had been replaced by Dominic Raab.
The conflict over the line in the Brexit negotiations threatens to blow up the Prime Minister's office Theresa May May swore his cabinet on a sweet Brexit weekend. Brexit supporters in their party do not go far enough. As announced Monday the London government, May has accepted the resignation of his Foreign Minister this afternoon. In the evening, May receives the Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz at Downing Street in London
Johnson: "Dismissed"
Boris Johnson sees his dream of leaving the EU to expire. "The Brexit Dream is dying, suffocated by useless doubts," he said in his resignation letter to Prime Minister Theresa May. The May government's plan for a close relationship between Britain and Britain EU after Brexit writes Johnson. Originally, he had supported the government's plans, but now these "stuck in his throat."
New for Negotiations Brexit
Dominic Raab, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Construction, is the new contact for the British For the negotiations Brexit: After Davis launched the dispute as Minister of Brexit Sunday evening, May appointed a successor as early as Monday morning.
Like Davis, the latter also applies Raab, 44, a believer in Brexit. Davis' resignation had plunged the London government into a deep crisis just nine months before leaving the EU on March 29.
The "new trend" of Brexit's policy and tactics makes it unlikely that Britain dominates the single market and leaving the customs union, Davis said in his resignation letter on Monday night. May accepted the resignation.
Davis accuses May of failing. The course that she took in the negotiations on the exit of the EU has a number of weaknesses, Davis said Monday "BBC Radio". The government was too ready for concessions. He therefore fears new pressures from Brussels.
Davis resigns Sunday night. The champion of a hard Brexit has been in office for two years and is expected to organize for the government the withdrawal of Britain from the EU.
The head of government contradicted Davis's statements, however. She did not agree with her characterization of Brexit's new strategy, she said. May had ordered her cabinet Friday to participate in a twelve-hour marathon meeting on the Checkers estate in northwestern London. The ministers even had to hand over their smartphones at the closed meeting. In the evening of May announced that the government had agreed on a new strategy for the exit of the EU.
"Common Position" with the EU
Also Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar and Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) evaluated Friday, Theresa May presented the "common position" of the UK government on future relations with the EU after Brexit as progress. However, at a joint press conference Sunday evening in Dublin, they also pointed out that there were still "open questions". "I think we can be more optimistic than we were in Brussels a week ago," Varadkar said before the first reports of the Brexit minister's resignation, referring to the recent EU summit. The "next step" is the publication of the London "White Paper" announced this week, which he wants to see and badyze more closely.
Short in Ireland
Shortly Sunday, a three-day trip to the British Isles begins. For Monday morning, a visit of the Irish-Irish border area to the program. Later, the Chancellor wanted to continue in London, where for 17:00 local time (18:00 CEST) a meeting with Prime Minister May was scheduled. Before the trip, Kurz had described Britain's withdrawal from the European Union as "one of the key issues that will occupy us during our presidency". Negotiations on Brexit are entering the hot period under the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the EU. By the fall of the exit agreement with Britain must be negotiated so that it can be ratified in time by both parties. Britain must leave the European Union on March 29, 2019.
The British plan was considered by many Brexit supporters as a departure from the EU exit. This plan, which is called friendly for businesses, provides for the creation of a free trade zone with the EU for goods and other close relations with the EU. EU. This would avoid a land border with controls between Ireland, a member of the EU, and the British province of Northern Ireland. The service sector should be excluded. In addition, Great Britain reserves the right to impose its own import duties and enter into new trade agreements with third parties. In the future, Parliament should also be able to decide whether European rules and regulations should be respected.
Delay for May
For May, the resignation of Davis is a blow. She must now count with more resistance from the Brexit wing of her party. About 60 MPs from their group will be counted. The Minister of Foreign Affairs Boris Johnso would have accepted the plans that he was very reluctant. Two secretaries of state at the Brexit Ministry also reportedly withdrew their hat. If more members of the government resign, the month of May could bring great distress. Even a premature fall of the PM does not seem out of the question.
Davis is considered the ardent representative of a clear break with Brussels. He had threatened to resign in the past if May tied the country too closely to Brussels. He has long been dissatisfied with his role in government. Davis had always been brief in the exit negotiations in Brussels and often seemed unprepared. More and more, May has taken the wheel in the negotiations. His resignation plunges the government at the wrong time into a new crisis. Britain leaves the European Union on March 29, 2019. Until then, an exit agreement must be put in place, otherwise the chaos threatens.
Davis is the sixth minister May has lost since the new election last June. The Minister of Defense Michael Fallon and Deputy Prime Minister Damian Green abandoned their posts after allegations of harbadment. Minister of Development Assistance Priti Patel resigned because she had met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu without agreement. The Minister of the Interior Amber Rudd had to resign as an illegal immigrant in the scandal of illegal treatment of immigrant workers in the Caribbean. Only a resignation was not triggered by a scandal: James Brokenshire had abandoned his post as British Minister of Northern Ireland due to an illness. He returned to the Cabinet table as Minister of Local Authorities – recovering.
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