With apologies for the slight delay (European elections intervened), welcome to the Guardian’s weekly Brexit briefing, trying to make sense of the nonsensical since June 2016. Mounting Tory pressure for the prime minister to resign culminated in the dramatic departure of Andrea Leadsom. It had been “the honour of my life” to serve as Britain’s second female prime minister, she said, but she deeply regretted being “unable to deliver Brexit”. Boris Johnson was fast out of the blocks, insisting the UK must leave the EU on 31 October “deal or no deal”. If a new Tory prime minister wants to exit that way, he or she will need fresh public consent.

Source: The Guardian May 28, 2019 10:48 UTC