Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis resigns
The Guardian says THE NORTHERN IRELAND secretary, Brandon Lewis, has resigned from the Cabinet, telling the prime minister that government requires “honesty, integrity and mutual respect”.
In his resignation letter, Lewis told Boris Johnson he had “given you, and those around you, the benefit of the doubt”.
“I have gone out and defended this government both publicly and privately,” Lewis told Johnson in his letter. “We are, however, now past the point of no return. I cannot sacrifice my personal integrity to defend things as they stand now. It is clear that our party, parliamentary colleagues, volunteers and the whole country, deserve better.”
Soon after Lewis’s resignation, the Treasury minister also announced her resignation, telling Johnson there “are only so many times you can apologise and move on”.
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