Former cabinet minister says Conservative party becoming ‘the Brexit party’

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The former Conservative cabinet minister and Brexit rebel Justine Greening has announced she will quit as an MP at the next election and criticised her party for becoming “the Brexit party”.

Issuing a stinging criticism of Boris Johnson’s government and its lurch further to the right, she said the Conservative party was “narrowing down its appeal” to people across the country.