Emily Thornberry MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary, commenting on press reports on the Foreign Office said:

“This is a mess entirely of Theresa May’s making. She created these three separate departments not because it made sense in terms of coordinating Whitehall’s management of Brexit, but just to buy the loyalty of Liam Fox, Boris Johnson and David Davis. Now we see the inevitable dysfunction and turf wars, as they fight between them to grab work that should have been coordinated out of the Foreign Office alone. It is high time that the Tories stopped fighting amongst themselves, started thinking about the good of the country, and focused on clearing up the mess that they have created.”