In a major blow to Prime Minister Theresa May, Britain's Brexit Secretary David Davis has resigned from the government citing irreconcilable differences with the premier over her plan to make a soft exit from the EU.
Davis quit just two days after May secured Cabinet backing for her strategy for a divorce deal with the EU.
Davis, who was appointed to the post in 2016 and was responsible for negotiating the UK's EU withdrawal, told May in a letter that the government's proposal "will leave us in at best a weak negotiating position, and possibly an inescapable one."
In her reply, May said: "I do not agree with your characterisation of the policy we agreed at Cabinet on Friday."
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