Brexit minister David Davis steps up

london - The British Minister of Brexitzaken David Davis and his deputy minister Steve Baker have submitted their resignation to Prime Minister Theresa May. Davis has quit his job because of the rising tensions and major differences within the cabinet about the Brexit strategy.

Within the British Conservatives there is a fierce directional battle going on about the strategy to be followed. A wing of the party headed by Foreign Minister Boris Johnson, to which Davis also belongs, wants to be completely independent of the European Union without agreements, while May opts for a softer variant.

On Friday, the Cabinet came to an agreement to follow a softer Brexit strategy and the ranks seemed closed.

In his letter of dismissal to May, Davis writes that the agreement reached on Friday in the cabinet 'undermines my position as a Brexit negotiator.' 'He is also afraid that' not the government, but parliament will decide how the Brexit will go '. He also says he fears that Britain's negotiating position vis-à-vis the EU will be 'weak'.

May said in a response to the departure of Davis that she finds it 'sorry' that Davis leaves. She disagrees with the arguments he puts forward. 'As a cabinet, we had to determine the current position to continue with detailed negotiations about a departure from Britain from the EU', says May.

According to the Prime Minister, last Friday's coalition agreement is consistent with the outcome of the British voter's will and in accordance with the party's position on brexit from the Conservatives. '' In the newspaper The Times, after that agreement, May still had a warning for her Foreign Minister Boris Johnson, with whom she regularly disagrees about the strategy: 'If he tries to undermine the British position he is fired. ''

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