With just eight months left before the United Kingdom is set to leave the European Union, the British government is as divided as ever over what happens afterward. On July 6, Prime Minister Theresa May gathered her Cabinet to hammer out a strategy for negotiating with the bloc on trade. According to the plan, the United Kingdom and the European Union would maintain full regulatory alignment on goods and food, using technology to determine which products went where and what tariffs they were subject to.
The proposal, designed to appease those calling for a soft Brexit, came at the price of alienating the hard-liners among the Tories. David Davis, the United Kingdom's chief Brexit negotiator, argued that it made too many concessions to the European Union and resigned in protest July 8. The next day, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson stepped down from his post as well. The resignations highlight the...
