British Labor and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has announced her resignation in protest at Prime Minister Boris Johnson's policy on the issue of Brexit.
In her resignation letter, Rudd said she had accepted to join the Johnson government because she believed that putting an exit option without agreement at the negotiating table would be a way to achieve a new agreement with the EU.
She stated that she was finally convinced that coming out of the agreement was not a major objective of the government, stressing that the government's policy is strongly focused on getting out without agreement and not attaching the same exit agreement.
Rudd accused the prime minister of "attacking" democratic values when Johnson decided to exclude 21 conservative lawmakers who voted for a bill that would force the government to abandon the option of going out without agreement.
She stressed that the decision caused the expulsion of conservative deputies (from the parliamentary bloc of the party) no doubt in their loyalty to the party and their concern for the interest of the country, adding that «can not stand by the spectator in front of this deliberate political sabotage».
Rudd's resignation is a second blow to the prime minister, after his brother, Secretary of State for Business Joe Johnson, resigned on Thursday as well as an objection to the government's policy toward Brexit.