UK minister resigns amid Brexit row with government

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal</p> <p>LONDON (AA) – British Minister of Wales Nigel Adams resigned from the government and Conservative Party whip after failing to agree the latest Brexit strategy of Prime Minister Theresa May.</p> <p>“We must deliver the Brexit people voted for,” Adams criticized May’s decision to start talks with the main opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to find a way forward in the Brexit impasse.</p> <p>“And we must prevent the calamity of a Corbyn government,” he said in his resignation letter.</p> <p>Adams added: “I fear that we are now at risk of simultaneously failing in both.”</p> <p>He said that “…legitimising and turning to Jeremy Corbyn to assist you at this crucial stage, rather than being bold, is a grave error.”</p> <p>Defending a U.K. departure from the EU with a no-deal, Adams said: “No deal is better than a bad deal.”</p> <p>“It now seems that you and your cabinet have decided that a deal — cooked up with a Marxist who has never once in his political life put British interests first — is better than no deal,” he said.</p> <p>On Tuesday, May said after a 7-hour long cabinet meeting that she will start talks with Corbyn to look for a way forward to break the Brexit deadlock.</p> <p>With the U.K.’s first extended Brexit deadline on April 12, British Prime Minister Theresa May also said that it needs an additional short extension from the EU. </p> <p>“So today I am taking action to break the logjam: I am offering to sit down with the Leader of the Opposition and to try to agree a plan — that we would both stick to — to ensure that we leave the European Union and that we do so with a deal,” she said, referring to the Labour leader.</p> <p>May said “we need to focus on… our future relationship with the EU.</p> <p>“The ideal outcome of this process would be to agree an approach on a Future Relationship that delivers on the result of the Referendum, that both the Leader of the opposition and I could put to the House for approval, and which I could then take to next week’s European Council,” set for April 10.</p> <p>The prime minister added that if “a single unified approach” cannot be reached, “then we would instead agree a number of options for the future relationship that we could put to the House in a series of votes to determine which course to pursue.”</p> <p>May and Corbyn are expected to initiate talks on Brexit on Wednesday.

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