British PM backed in Brexit battle (Guardian)

British Prime Minister Theresa May received the backing of the last remaining pro-Brexit heavyweights in her cabinet on Friday as she battled to salvage her EU divorce deal and her job.

After a tumultuous Thursday in which four ministers resigned, MPs slammed her draft agreement and members of her own party plotted to oust her, May received key support from the top Brexiteers left in her government.

All eyes were on Environment Secretary Michael Gove — a Vote Leave figurehead in Britain’s 2016 EU membership referendum — who had stayed ominously silent as his colleagues quit around him.

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