andrea leadsom: May said she was sorry Leadsom had quit, while rejecting her reasons for doing so, according to The Japan Times. The premier's office said she would stay focused on delivering Brexit. ; Leadsom and other ministers spent much of Wednesday in private talks plotting to kill May's last-gasp plan to use a possible second referendum to get her divorce agreement through Parliament. Andrea Leadsom resigned late on Wednesday, saying she no longer believed the government's approach will honor the result of the 2016 referendum. As the pro-Brexit faction within May's Cabinet discussed how to coordinate their revolt, the most senior rank-and-file members of her Conservative Party held a crisis meeting to weigh up whether to throw her out. Both the Times and Daily Mail reported May is expected to announce the timetable for her departure on Friday, though one of the premier's aides rejected that idea, according to the BBC. Wednesday was a day when May's authority appeared visibly to drain away. The pound fell as investors braced for the prospect that a pro-Brexit hard-liner will succeed May, and could rip Britain out of the European Union with no deal to cushion the blow.
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