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The administration of Theresa May, the Prime Minister, staggered on, as Conservative MPs exchanged angry words in the Commons, with supporters of Brexit and its enemies voting in turn against government bills. The government even failed to shorten the parliamentary session by five days to avoid trouble, instead provoking threats of defeat on the adjournment debate. An amendment to the Trade Bill seeking to impose a customs union on the government was defeated by 307 to 301, thanks to four Labour MPs who voted with the government. Guto Bebb resigned as minister for defence procurement to vote against the government on amendments that it accepted to the Customs Bill. John Woodcock MP left the Labour party, which he said had been ‘taken over by the hard left’ and ‘tolerated’ anti-Semitism. A glass ornament on a sunny windowsill destroyed a bungalow at Bognor Regis.
During his visit to Britain, President Donald Trump of the United States told the Sun that, on the Brexit negotiations: ‘I actually told Theresa May how to do it but she didn’t agree, she didn’t listen to me.’
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