Conservative MP quits over policy differences with May's government

MP Stephen Phillips has resigned with immediate effect as a result of "irreconcilable policy differences" with Prime Minister Theresa May's government. "It has become clear to me over the last few months that my growing and very significant policy differences with the current government mean that I am unable properly to represent the people who elected me," he said in a statement. In an article in the Guardian newspaper Phillips, who had voted in favour of leaving the European Union in Britain's