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Avantee west coast, feel good travel. Welcome to a special episode of FT Politics. I'm Sebastian Payne and we're here to discuss the dual

resignations of David Davis and Boris Johnson

and all the cabinet chaos that has ensued over the past couple of days.

I'm joined by George Parker, the F.T. political editor, Laura Hughes, our political political correspondent and Robert Shimsley are UK political commentator

to unravel what happened.

George, let's begin with what happened on Sunday evening and Monday night.

David Dave's decided after many threatened attempts he was going to walk away.

He handed in his resignation letter and then Boris Johns decided he would do the same thing.

Yes, that's right. And in a way Downey Street had expected

D.D. and Boris Johnson to resign at the checkers meeting in fact they'd made

contingency plans and there were briefings that those were the two that they were

watching and there was an expectation they might go and the fact they didn't resign on the night of checkers I think led to a feeling in Downey Street that they were through it and there was being someone in number 10 on Sunday who was saying well we've got to try to avoid triumphalism here they

really thought they cracked it and that this week would be a sort of march of

triumph for Theresa May with an adoration of the Tory party at the House of Commons and of course it didn't turn out like that.

I think probably it was a question of David Davis and Boris Johnson considering what they'd agreed to at

Chequers first of all I second think this is a bit more cynical interpretation I think they thought if they

resigned late on Friday night at checkers their resignations would have been completely

overshadowed by England's World Cup quarterfinal match against Sweden and you have to give them credit where

credits due they certainly created more of an impact by resigning on Monday

just before Theresa May came to the House of Commons.

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