Another UK government member resigns over further extension to Brexit
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Junior Brexit minister Chris Heaton-Harris became the second government member to resign on Wednesday after Prime Minister Theresa May said she would ask to delay Brexit again. Heaton-Harris said in a letter to May that he would have wanted Britain to leave the European Union on the scheduled departure date of March 29, adding: "I simply cannot support any further extension."
Heaton-Harris, who was responsible for no-deal Brexit preparations, said Britain "would have swiftly overcome any immediate issues of leaving without a deal and gone on to thrive". He said May's announcement showed she did not want to leave the EU without a negotiated deal. "That obviously makes my job in government irrelevant," he said. May held talks with Labour main opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn in a bid to forge a Brexit compromise, which has enraged the staunchly pro-Brexit wing of her Conservative Party. Junior Wales minister Nigel Adams earlier resigned in protest at what he said was May's "grave error" in judgement.
(With inputs from agencies.)
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