Yahoo News The ministers who have resigned from Theresa May's Cabinet... so far
On an almost unprecedented morning of drama in Westminster on Thursday, Theresa May saw her Brexit secretary quit as well as a number of other resignations.
Before she even got to Parliament to address MPs she had lost two Cabinet and two junior ministers and the list was expected to grow.
Brexit secretary Dominic Raab was even the second person to quit from that job, since the role was created.
And since forming the government in 2017, Mrs May has lost 14 ministers.
The Resignations
Michael Fallon
Michael Fallon resigned as defence secretary on November 1, 2017, after being caught up in Westminster sleaze allegations, saying his behaviour had ‘fallen below the high standards required’ after admitting putting his hand on the knee of radio presenter Julia Hartley-Brewer some years ago.
Priti Patel
Political intrigue did for Priti Patel who quit as international development, alos in November 2017, over undisclosed and unauthorised meetings in Israel, including with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Damian Green
A month later, Green left the Cabinet – on December 20, 2017 – and his post as first secretary of state after a probe found he made ‘inaccurate and misleading’ statements about pornography on his computer.
Justine Greening
The New Year saw the same old problems as by January 8, 2018, Justine Greening became the first minister out of office, sacked in the PM’s reshuffle in January after refusing to move from her education post to the Department for Work and Pensions.
Amber Rudd
Home secretary Amber Rudd walked in April after admitting she had ‘inadvertently’ misled MPs over the existence of targets for removing illegal immigrants over the Windrush scandal. She had taken over the ministry from Mrs May.
David Davis
The first Brexit Secretary to quit.
Arch-Brexiteer David, who famously turned up to the first Brexit talks without any papers, resigned claiming he was not the best person to deliver Prime Minister’s Brussels plan.
He said his resignation was ‘career-ending’.
Boris Johnson
Within a matter of hours, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson quit the Cabinet as well.
He was also critical of Mrs May’s handling of Brexit negotiations.
Johnson was a prominent figure in the Vote Leave campaign at the time of the referendum.
Tracey Crouch
The first resignation this month as Crouch quit as sports and civil society minister on November 1 over a row about delays in cutting the maximum stake for fixed-odds betting terminals.
She had been in the post since June 2017.
Jo Johnson
The brother of Boris.
He also quit the Cabinet over Brexit, but unlike his more famous sibling it was because he is a Renmainer and claimed a ‘terrible mistake’.
He also called for a second referendum.
Shailesh Vara
Vara quit as Northern Ireland minister on Thursday, opening the avalanche for other ministers to quit.
He said he could not support Mrs May’s Brexit agreement which ‘leaves the UK in a halfway house with no time limit on when we will finally be a sovereign nation’.
Dominic Raab
The second Brexit Secretary to go – even though he negotiated the Brexit deal.
He said he ‘cannot in good conscience support the terms proposed for our deal with the EU’.
Esther McVey
The Work and Pensions Secretary also quit on Thursday.
She said the Brexit deal ‘does not honour the result of the referendum’.
Suella Braverman
She resigned as a Brexit minister, saying she was ‘unable to sincerely support the deal agreed yesterday by Cabinet’.
