The Work and Pensions Minister Is Believed To Be Close To Resigning

Following a refusal to allow a vote at last nights cabinet meeting, Esther McVey, Work & Pensions Minister is said to be close to quitting.

A passionate BREXIT leaver, Esther McVey was said to have been in tears after a clash with PM Theresa May. In apparently a three minute confrontation, she is said to have repeatedly demanded a vote at the table to “put on record where everyone stood”. Number 10 sources said all twenty-nine ministers spoke in the Cabinet meeting and that no one threatened to resign however there are also reports Leader of the Commons Andrea Leadsom was also in tears and that she and International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt could also resign. There request for a free vote was rejected. 

In a briefing on November 27th by the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) and the Social Market Foundation, Thiemo Fetzer, Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Warwick, will show that austerity was the salient factor that activated existing social and economic grievances, which significantly bolstered the Leave vote. In the week that new immigration statistics are published, he will examine the factors that drove the Leave vote, discussing how far the vote was an act of protest against globalization and to what extent Brexit can be seen as an “informed choice”. Thiemo will argue that the economic grievances that were born out markedly in the EU referendum are likely to persist well-beyond the UK exiting the EU.

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