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BORIS GOES IN

FOR THE KILL

TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2018

By Jason Groves Political Editor

Glorious royal christening photos

PLUS souvenir pullout inside

Little Louis,

Kate’s adorable

sleeping cutie

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Johnson quits...

and blames May for

‘Brexit dream dying’

He blasts: We

went into battle

waving white flag

Day of chaos

leaves PM facing

fight for survival

THERESA May was fighting for her political

life last night after Boris

Johnson accused her of killing Brexit.

as foreign secretary to declare He used his shock resignation

war on her Chequers plan for

leaving the EU. Warning that the UK was heading for colonial sta-

tus, he said the Brexit dream was ‘dying – suffocated by self-doubt’.

negotiators ‘into battle with the white He claimed Mrs May was sending

flags fluttering above them’ and sur-rendering control to Brussels. Follow-

ing a chaotic day of resignations and rumours, Downing Street is now

braced for a potential leadership chal-lenge. Sources insisted the Prime

Minister would stand and fight for the national interest while her allies

derided Mr Johnson, saying he offered no solutions on Brexit.

resign only after David Davis had quit In a reference to his decision to

as Brexit Secretary on Sunday night,

one said: ‘There’s not much honour in being second over the top.’

Jacob Rees-Mogg last night backed But, in a significant intervention,

Mr Johnson, saying he would make a ‘brilliant’ prime minister.

ing of the pro-Brexit European More than 80 MPs attended a meet-

Research Group, which Mr Rees-Mogg

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Glorious royal christening photos

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Kate’s adorablle

sleeping cutie

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