{"id":48412,"date":"2018-11-09T17:15:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T17:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48412"},"modified":"2018-11-09T17:16:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T17:16:58","slug":"jo-johnson-resigns-from-uk-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/jo-johnson-resigns-from-uk-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Jo Johnson resigns from UK government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-48414\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jo-Johnson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jo-Johnson.jpg 599w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jo-Johnson-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/>Jo Johnson, the younger brother of Boris Johnson, resigned from Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s government on Friday, calling for another referendum to avoid the vassalage or chaos that he said her Brexit plans would unleash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBritain stands on the brink of the greatest crisis since the Second World War,\u201d Johnson, a former Financial Times journalist who voted to stay in the EU in the 2016 referendum, said after resigning as junior transport minister.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"alignleft quote-simple \"><p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script> <!-- Automatic size Responsive --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1234237307185872\" data-ad-slot=\"7381563475\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins> <script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Johnson issued a damning critique of May\u2019s \u201cdelusional\u201d Brexit negotiation and said the government had argued itself into a choice between vassalage and chaos, the worst failure of statecraft since the 1956 Suez crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTo present the nation with a choice between two deeply unattractive outcomes, vassalage and chaos, is a failure of British statecraft on a scale unseen since the Suez crisis,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cGiven that the reality of Brexit has turned out to be so far from what was once promised, the democratic thing to do is to give the public the final say,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Johnson is the 14th minister to have resigned from government since May held a misjudged snap election in June last year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); 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