With David Davis and Boris Johnson gone, the cabinet will be stronger | Malcolm Rifkind

Those who resigned were paper tigers. In Dominic Raab we have an intelligent and passionate Brexiteer, and a potential prime minister

I am feeling more optimistic than I have for some time that there will be an agreement with the EU on Brexit. The prime minister and a large majority of her cabinet are well aware of the serious and lasting damage that would be done to British industry – at a cost of tens of thousands of jobs – if we exited the European Union next March without agreement and without any transition period.

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