https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/world/europe/david-davis-brexit-resign.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain was battling to save her government on Monday after her foreign secretary quit over Brexit, deepening a mood of crisis just eight months before the country is due to leave the European Union.
The foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, was the second minister to leave her cabinet within 24 hours. He stepped down after Mrs. May pushed ahead with a proposal that would keep Britain more closely tied to the European Union than hard-line conservatives want.
“We are truly headed for the status of colony,” Mr. Johnson said in his resignation letter.
Even more disturbing, he said, was that “this is our opening bid” in negotiations with the European Union. It is as though “we are sending our vanguard into battle with a white flag fluttering above them.”
Just last week, Mrs. May appeared to have won the full cabinet’s agreement on keeping Britain’s economy closely anchored to the European Union. The resignations reopened speculation about a challenge to her leadership, something that Mrs. May’s spokesman said she would fight.