{"id":60262,"date":"2017-12-29T14:16:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T19:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/lord-adonis-resigns-with-scathing-letter-calling-theresa-may-the-voice-of-ukip\/"},"modified":"2017-12-29T14:16:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T19:16:04","slug":"lord-adonis-resigns-with-scathing-letter-calling-theresa-may-the-voice-of-ukip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/lord-adonis-resigns-with-scathing-letter-calling-theresa-may-the-voice-of-ukip\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Adonis Resigns With Scathing Letter Calling Theresa May The &#8216;Voice Of UKIP&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Lord Adonis Resigns With Scathing Letter Calling Theresa May The &#8216;Voice Of UKIP&#8217;<\/b><br \/>\nTheresa May\u2019s infrastructure tsar has quit, delivering a scathing verdict on the Prime Minister\u2019s approach to Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>Europhile Labour peer Lord Adonis resigned as chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission, claiming May had become the \u201cvoice of Ukip\u201d and the \u201cextreme\u201d right-wing of her party.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was \u201cduty bound\u201d to oppose the Government\u2019s European Union (Withdrawal) Bill when it comes to the House of Lords, reports the Press Association.<\/p>\n<p>In his resignation letter, reported by The Sun and The Daily Telegraph, he told the Prime Minister: \u201cBrexit is a dangerous populist and nationalist spasm worthy of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the narrow referendum vote for an undefined proposition to \u2018leave the EU,\u2019 it could have been attempted without rupturing our essential European trade and political relations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, by becoming the voice of UKIP and the extreme nationalist right-wing of your party, you have taken a different course, for which you have no parliamentary or popular mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But The Sun also reports that Government sources have insisted the Labour peer was quitting before \u201che was pushed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A National Infrastructure Commission spokeswoman confirmed that Lord Adonis had written to the Prime Minister.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/lord-adonis-resigns_uk_5a468b96e4b025f99e1b5176\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/lord-adonis-resigns_uk_5a468b96e4b025f99e1b5176<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Adonis Resigns With Scathing Letter Calling Theresa May The &#8216;Voice Of UKIP&#8217; Theresa May\u2019s infrastructure tsar has quit, delivering a scathing verdict on the Prime Minister\u2019s approach to Brexit. 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