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| Brexit: Wales minister Nigel Adams quits over talks with Corbyn | Brexit: Wales minister Nigel Adams quits over talks with Corbyn |
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| A junior Wales Office minister has quit over the prime minister's decision to turn to Jeremy Corbyn to try to get a Brexit deal through Parliament. | A junior Wales Office minister has quit over the prime minister's decision to turn to Jeremy Corbyn to try to get a Brexit deal through Parliament. |
| Nigel Adams said the decision was a "grave error" and the UK would now "end up in a customs union" with the EU. | Nigel Adams said the decision was a "grave error" and the UK would now "end up in a customs union" with the EU. |
| Mr Adams, who was also a government whip, said he believed the UK would have coped with a "managed no-deal". | Mr Adams, who was also a government whip, said he believed the UK would have coped with a "managed no-deal". |
| He became the fourth Wales minister to have the job within 12 months when he took up the role last November. | |
| Theresa May is to meet Mr Corbyn later see if they can formulate a deal that both sides in Parliament can agree to. | Theresa May is to meet Mr Corbyn later see if they can formulate a deal that both sides in Parliament can agree to. |
| She said if it was not possible to agree, they could choose a series of options to put to the House of Commons. | She said if it was not possible to agree, they could choose a series of options to put to the House of Commons. |
| In his resignation letter, Mr Adams tells Mrs May: "I and many others agreed with your previous position that no deal is better than a bad deal. | |
| "It now seems that you and your cabinet have decided that a deal - cooked up with a Marxist who has never once in his political life put British interest first - is better than no deal." | "It now seems that you and your cabinet have decided that a deal - cooked up with a Marxist who has never once in his political life put British interest first - is better than no deal." |
| Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said he was "disappointed to see Nigel leave government and would like to thank him for all his work and efforts as a minister". | Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said he was "disappointed to see Nigel leave government and would like to thank him for all his work and efforts as a minister". |
| "My department and I are committed to delivering on our priorities," he said. | "My department and I are committed to delivering on our priorities," he said. |
| Tory MP for Montgomeryshire Glyn Davies said he was "really sorry to see Nigel leave the Wales Office". | |
| He's a really good MP, and I will miss working with him," he said. | |
| But Labour Welsh assembly member Alun Davies, said it was the resignation "someone no one in Wales has ever heard of". | |
| "Another reason why the Wales Office should be abolished," he tweeted. |