LONDON: Britain’s Work and Pensions Secretary
Amber Rudd resigned from the government and the ruling Conservative Party on Saturday in a protest over PM Boris Johnson’s handling of the country’s departure from the EU. Johnson says he wants to take Britain out of the EU on Oct. 31 with or without a deal with the bloc. But he lost his parliamentary majority this week and expelled 21 lawmakers from his Conservative Party’s group in parliament after they supported an opposition plan to try to block a no-deal exit.
Rudd, also a former interior minister who voted remain in the 2016
Brexit referendum, said the ousting of the rebel lawmakers, who included the grandson of Britain's wartime leader
Winston Churchill and two former
finance ministers, was an “assault on decency and
democracy.” “I have resigned from Cabinet and surrendered the Conservative whip,” Rudd said on her Twitter account.