Brexit crisis: Hunt's health secretary replaces Johnson

British Prime Minister Theresa May fights to prevent her government from imploding after two important resignations

Boris Johnson, the Foreign Minister, singer of the British campaign for the exit of the Union and David Davis, his once loyal "Brexit Minister," charged with negotiating the split of the bloc country.

Since she's missed the 2017 elections, losing a majority in parliament, there has been rampant speculation over the May term. While May prepares to meet US President Donald Trump on her first official visit to Britain this week, the intransigent Brexiters are openly debating a vote of no-confidence that could wield power.

Johnson, a flamboyant politician and former mayor of London, once said, "My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars …."

He divides, and his stock has fallen lately. But the Whitehall Mandarins and the British political class have long assumed that he covets the keys to 10 Downing Street. His departure points to a possible leadership challenge in the May Conservative Party.

In his resignation letter, Johnson writes that the Brexit dream "is dying, suffocated by a useless self-doubt." He said that Britain "was heading for colony status – and many will have trouble seeing the economic or political benefit of this particular arrangement."

"I'm sorry – and a little surprised" May writes in response. 19659002] Johnson's allies say that he made the honorable man by resigning. His critics see selfish maneuvers.

Can replace Johnson today with Jeremy Hunt, former health secretary, who manages to get a big increase in spending for the underfunded National Health Service.

She was named successor to Davis at age 44 … Dominic Raab, one of the leading pro-Brexit activists who served as housing minister

Secretary of Culture Matt Hancock succeeds Health, and Jeremy Wright, Attorney General, takes over culture. Geoffrey Cox is replaced in his place

But the explosive resignations expose May to further confrontations with conservative Party members outraged by what they view as the Prime Minister's plan for a mild Brexit that keeps the Great Brittany bound to many regulations. he leaves the block in March 2019.

Proponents of a hard Brexit, who want a decisive break from Brussels, are now in open revolt. They denounced May's latest roadmap as a fudge, a timid capitulation: "Brexit in name only" that ignores the 52% of voters who chose to leave the EU in June 2016.

Tim Bale , a political expert at Queen Mary, The University of London said that May was in a difficult situation: "I do not think it's necessarily fatal for her – right now anyway."

He has said that the Conservative Party did not really have an appetite for another general election – because of ongoing negotiations on Brexit and because the Conservatives did not merge around a candidate to defend.

Johnson has "still a little fan club, but I'm not sure he's the pin-up he once was," said Bale. While some see an original English, others see a clown.

Can pay tribute to Davis and Johnson in Parliament today, even though "we are not in agreement on the best way to honor our common commitment to honor the results of the referendum. "

When she congratulated Johnson on her" passion, "laughter broke out in the room, and when she said that Brexit had sparked" a lively national debate, "there had been sneers.

May said that she had listened to all possible ideas and concluded that hers was just to continue

She Urges Brussels to seek a compromise. "If the EU continues on this path, there is a serious risk that this will lead to no agreement, and it would most likely be a non-agreement. "Responsible government needs to prepare for a range of potential outcomes," she said. ls. "

The May Brexit plans are now an open question. Business leaders in Britain who run companies that manufacture planes and automobiles demand answers and warn that Brexit is drifting towards the rocks.

The pound slipped after Johnson's resignation. The chain, the reaction was muted.

"Politicians come and go, but the problems they created for their people remain," said Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, before being informed of Johnson's resignation. He said that the same feeling also extended to Johnson

Tusk added: "The disorder caused by Brexit is the biggest problem in the history of EU-UK relations. United, and it is still far from being resolved. "

Trump is expected to arrive Friday morning for a visit that will be followed closely for any comment on Brexit and US relations with the European Union.

Last month, Johnson told an audience at a private gala dinner that he thought Trump would do a better job at negotiating Brexit than his prime minister.

"Imagine Trump doing Brexit," Johnson told his audience of conservative activists. "It would go in the blood … There would be all sorts of breakdowns, all sorts of chaos, everyone would think that he went crazy, but in fact you could get somewhere, it's a very, very good thought. " [19659011
In Parliament, the most uncompromising Brexit supporters are the most vocal but not the majority. A compromise outing is supported by the Moderate Conservatives, the Labor Party and the Liberal Democrats, among others.

In his resignation letter, Davis warned that his approach would lead to new demands from Brussels and give Europe control over large areas of the territory. The British Economy

One of the leading activists to leave the European Union, Nigel Farage, a radio personality and European parliamentarian, said: "For Brexit to succeed, we need to get rid of this dreadful prime minister. "

Davis suggested that the May promise that Britain and its parliament "take back control" of Brussels was hollow. "This is painted as the return of power to the House of Commons," said Davis. "In practice, he does not do it."

For two years, chief negotiator Davis was the face with white hair and red cheeks. of Brexit. But the talks in Brussels were notoriously slow, because May's government could not – and still can not – agree on Britain's trade relations with Europe, immigration, law, tariffs and border controls. that Davis had only participated in four hours of negotiations in Brussels in 2018, without meeting the chief negotiator of the EU, Michel Barnier, for three months.

David Lammy, a prominent member of the opposition Labor Party, has described Davis as a man who can not take responsibility.He was responsible for Brexit for two years, no one in the world n? is as guilty of this disorder as he is. "

The Prime Minister's plan for a mild Brexit was advanced by May at a meeting of the United States. Crunch's Cabinet at his Country Manor, called Checkers, on the Weekend.

At this meeting, May had seemed to be winning her split cabinet and getting approval for her plan, which was to be released as early as this week in a long white paper that The brief outline that has been circulated shows that she supports a path of compromise with Brussels, keeping Britain closely aligned with Europe on standards, "a common regulation for industrial and agricultural goods. Jeremy Corbyn, Labor Party leader of the Opposition, mocked May in Parliament today, saying it had taken him two long years to develop a Brexit plan and only two days for this plan to break down