Beleaguered May 'offers Gove Brexit secretary job'

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

Michael Gove has been offered the job of Brexit secretary in the wake of Dominic Raab’s resignation, as Theresa May battles to shore up her authority, but he is demanding a shift in the government’s negotiating strategy first, Whitehall sources say.

As the most senior figure from the Vote Leave campaign still inside May’s deeply-divided cabinet, Gove’s backing is regarded as pivotal to her efforts to keep her Brexit deal alive.

But the environment secretary is said to be urging the prime minister to shift her stance, and allow negotiators to go back to Brussels in a last-ditch bid to secure a deal that could be backed by parliament.

Gove’s close ally, Conservative backbencher Nick Boles, has called for the UK to try to secure a close, Norway-style relationship in the short term – and then negotiate a free trade deal.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/15/beleaguered-may-offers-gove-brexit-secretary-job

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I gather the past few days have not gone well.....

[cab67]

1. you'd think they'd do the right thing

and either hold another referendum or drop this Brexit silliness altogether.

[OnDoutside]

2. Hahaha, very good !

[Recursion]

3. Rumor is Rees-Mogg pulls the trigger on a no-confidence vote tomorrow

What an epic fiasco.

[ananda]

4. This whole thing has been one huge mess.

That's what you get when Russia and conservatives
rule.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Someone called May a pound shop Margaret Thatcher

It's beginning to look more and more that way.

[T_i_B]

6. That's honestly an insult to Margaret Thatcher

And don't get me started on Gove.