David Davis resigns as Brexit secretary [UPDATE: JOHNSON'S GONE TOO!]

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20. The bookies, for once, don't seem to have any more of a clue than the rest of us:

PaddyPower's been having a field day (this from 11 hours ago):

TORY CHAOS SPECIALS

4/7 – Conservative leadership contest to be called in 2018
6/4 – General Election to be called in 2018
Evens – No deal being agreed with the EU before April 1st 2019
4/1 – May to be PM at next General Election

LEADERSHIP CONTEST ODDS

1/2 – Theresa May
4/1 – Jacob Rees-Mogg
4/1 – Michael Gove
6/1 – Sajid Javid
9/1 – Boris Johnson

WHEN WILL BOJO RESIGN

10/1 – Today (Monday)
14/1 – Tomorrow (Tuesday)
4/1 – This week
Evens – This year
6/4 – 2019

https://news.paddypower.com/politics/2018/07/09/dexeus-midnight-runner-could-end-mays-soft-brexit-party/

(That one above may be a spoof.)

Anyway, there goes another one after the 1922 Committee meeting. Chris Green resigns as PPS:

Link to tweet

Meanwhile:

Christopher Hope
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@christopherhope

BREAKING More Conservative Cabinet ministers will resign unless Theresa May drops her Chequers plan, senior Eurosceptic sources have told The Telegraph.
One source said: "This is defenestration by Cabinet. If you push on with Chequers you are going to lose you leadership."

All this over a long-overdue cobbled-together armtwisted "agreement" the EU has already made clear it will dismiss as a non-starter. It's like Schrödinger's Cat - everything's fine till you open the box, then it's dead kitty time. Dearohdearohdear.

Still, May survived the 1922 Committee meeting, though seriously winged. It's going to be a fun run-up to the recess.