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Mountbatten Threatens Resignation
NEW LONDON - During this morning's cabinet session, Foreign Secretary Lady Mountbatten threatened the prime minister with resignation. All other Royalist members of the cabinet vowed to resign too, which would end the Whig-Royalist coalition and thereby Hall's cabinet, as it would lose its majority in parliament. What were Lady Mountbatten's reasons and what does the cabinet's future look like?
The core of the problem lay in the way Hall's cabinet has been doing foreign policy. By right, this role should be reserved to the Foreign Office, headed by Lady Mountbatten, but almost all of Bretonia's foreign affairs so far have endured heavy involvement by the prime minister. Lady Mountbatten claimed that Hall went as far as to threaten her with replacement if the Foreign Office was not pliable to the prime minister's plans. Now, after Her Majesty has expressed full support to the Royalist Party, that will no longer be possible. Hall claimed her heavy surveillance of the Foreign Office was due to "Mountbatten's history of incompetence". That was an extraordinary claim, yet extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, which Hall has not presented. Hall's confidence seems even more astounding when it is taken into account that crowds passing by Number 10 this morning actively laughed at its direction due to the contents of a certain tabloid article published yesterday.
Another point of disagreement was Hall's reported intention to pass a bill that would restrict tabloids, which Lady Mountbatten opposed, stating that it would endanger freedom of the press. The prime minister closed the session undecided and promised to reach a decision tomorrow. By all means, the prime minister's position has become undignifyingly difficult and this is doubtlessly the lowest point the Whig Party's existence so far. If Hall complies, she faces a significant loss of authority, because half of her cabinet will be comprised of ministers that she cannot discharge, yet if she refuses, her cabinet faces dissolution and Miss Hall would most likely be dismissed by Her Majesty.
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