Coming soon™… an election near you? Maybe… ?
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Vote of no confidence, leadership challenge and election. Can’t see how it won’t happen
I imagine the Conservatives would get a bigger majority if it happened now!
Haven’t read any of the summaries for the Brexit draft yet - Raab resigning is not exactly a surprise.
Much prefer this version
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Haven’t read the summaries yet either, but Raab resigning shows a sign of dissatisfaction.
It’s still relatively early… but there has been speculation before that the Tories had the number for the signatures to force a vote of no confidence in T.M. But no one went through with it.
However yes, I think IF a G.E. was called… they’d probably still win, but it would be a more hard line leader.
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I just don’t get his running away because he was Brexit Secretary. He is the one who must have seen this coming before most and he actually negotiated this and now like so many before him dusting his clothes off and gone.
Just like Monzo customer numbers predictions let’s do General Election prediction - I say in Feb 2019.
January 10th. I fancy voting on my birthday
DUP aren’t supporting them anymore so it will be interesting
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Scottish Tories might quit too… they were threatening it before…
Come on irish passport…
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And now Esther McVey…
That’s surprising. Thought she’d stick with it rather than have to make a claim for Universal Credit 
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We should have a made a Brexit resignation bingo card…
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Not too late. There’s plenty more left
Karen Bradley might jump
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I might be a little ignorant about how this works but aren’t all of these resignations purely self-preservation?
As I understood it, the cabinet unanimously voted though the deal and then started resigning. If they “can’t be party” to this draft agreement, why did they vote it through in the first place? Surely by putting their stamp on the agreement, they’re responsible for it’s implementation whether they liked it or not?
Edit: Just realised I misread “unanimous”, it was actually “collectively agreed” which might explain it…
There wasn’t actually a vote apparently but a consensus. They think the ship is going down so they’re jumping to try and get a position with whoever leads the party next
Ahh yeah, you’re right. Thanks!
Junior Brexit minister Suella Braverman and Anne-Marie Trevelyan, a ministerial aide at the education department, have also quit.
Domino effect.
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And a junior Northern Ireland minister. Now she’s given her statement to parliament it’ll get more interesting. If there are more senior resignations then it’s game over. Michael Gove will be one to watch
Just read it. It’s like the UK doesn’t have any good negotiators. Did they even do their homework? They’ve basically ceded all the benefits but still have to stay on on things they were “taking back control” of 
the ministers resigning are just trying to escape the mess they started.
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Everything is going to be just fine
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