Theresa May under pressure to replace Patel with Brexit enthusiast – Politics live

Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May appointing a new international development secretary to replace Priti Patel 1.59pm GMT This is from the Sun’s Steve Hawkes.Rumour is Penny Mordaunt’s promotion being held up because she’s .. oh yes .. delayed by the train 1.56pm GMT Here is the full quote from Boris Johnson on Fox News about President Trump. The presenter put it to Johnson that Trump was getting a lot of negative press in the US, and he asked how people outside America saw him. He replied:I think you’ve got to realise that the American president is just one of the huge, great global brands, and he is penetrating corners of the global consciousness that I think few other presidents have ever done. So his method of tweeting earlier in the morning, no matter how rambunctious those tweets may be, they are communicating with people. And, yes, a lot of people don’t like it. But a lot of people relate to it. And in an age when people have been turned off politics, it is more direct and it’s more communicative than a lot of previous presidents have managed. To this week’s Boris Johnson charge sheet, we can now add shameless, appalling obsequiousness https://t.co/RpzxdCvZII Continue reading…
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