THERE have been a raft of resignations in the wake of the Brexit agreement.

On Thursday Shailesh Vara quit as Northern Ireland minister, saying he could not support Mrs May's Brexit agreement which "leaves the UK in a halfway house with no time limit on when we will finally be a sovereign nation".

Then, Dominic Raab quit as Brexit Secretary, saying he "cannot in good conscience support the terms proposed for our deal with the EU".

Shortly after, Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey followed suit, saying the Brexit deal "does not honour the result of the referendum".

Then Suella Braverman resigned as a Brexit minister, saying she was "unable to sincerely support the deal agreed yesterday by Cabinet".

Also on Thursday, Anne-Marie Trevelyan resigned as a parliamentary private secretary in the Department for Education, saying she cannot support the Brexit deal after negotiations "built on the UK trying to appease the EU".

Conservative MP Ranil Jayawardena also quit his post as a parliamentary private secretary in the Ministry of Justice, telling the Prime Minister that her EU withdrawal agreement "does not deliver a good and fair Brexit".

And Gillingham and Rainham MP Rehman Chishti resigned as Conservative vice-chairman and prime ministerial trade envoy to Pakistan. He said he quit both because he could not support the draft withdrawal agreement and because he was disappointed by the "lack of leadership" shown by the Government in the case of Asia Bibi, who was accused of blasphemy in Pakistan.