AV 14th July 2018

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FIRST & FOREMOST ASIAN WEEKLY IN EUROPE

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Let noble thoughts come to us from every side

14 - 20 JULY 2018

BREXIT DEBACLE

inside: Sharif, daughter to be arrested on arrival in Pakistan SEE PAGE 23

MITUL PANIKER Things seem to just get worse for Prime Minister Theresa May as two senior ministers and one junior minister from her cabinet have resigned in a short span of two days, after the Chequers Summit. The first blow came on Sunday, when UK's Minister-in-charge of Brexit negotiations, David Davis resigned less than nine months before the United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union. The move came just 48 hours after May had secured approval from her cabinet to negotiate a “business friendly” deal to leave the EU. The Secretary of State for Exiting the EU said in his resignation letter that he did not want to be a reluctant conscript” and that he thought the plan approved last Friday “is certainly not returning control of our laws in any real sense.” May responded to the resignation saying she was “sorry” he had

chosen to resign and argued her proposal was “consistent with the mandate of the referendum”. Junior Brexit Ministers Steve Baker resigned just shortly after Davis left. May's cabinet was hit for the worse again, when Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson quit on Monday over the

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Chequers agreement. Just a day after he confirmed a meeting for crisis talks at his official residence in central London, he decided to walk from his job. The two major resignations have left May severely hit at the top of a government unable to unite over Britain's biggest foreign and trading policy shift in almost half a century. May was quick to appoint Jeremy Hunt as the new Foreign Secretary, following Boris Johnson's resignation from the job amid deep divisions over Britain's departure from the European Union (EU) or Brexit. The reformed Cabinet met on Tuesday motning.

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PM Modi opens world's largest mobile phone factory near Delhi SEE PAGE 18

"UK’s ecosystem robust enough to survive Brexit challenges" SEE PAGE 16-17

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