Theresa May’s hapless government has staggered on for a year since losing its parliamentary majority in the 2017 elections, but the resignation Monday of Brexit minister David Davis and foreign secretary Boris Johnson means that the end is in sight for an unpopular and incompetent leader. In a twist typical of May’s shoddy and inept leadership, she tried to force her cabinet into collective responsibility for a Brexit policy that walked back from May’s own campaign promises and policy statements, only for the gambit to backfire. A vote of no confidence from Conservative MPs is now on the cards, and the sooner the better.

“Brexit means Brexit,” May insisted in a landmark speech of January 2017 that committed her government to extricating Britain from the European Union. She wanted “a new and equal partnership… not partial membership of the European Union, or anything that leaves us half-in, half-out.” Nor would Britain, May promised, “seek to hold on to bits of membership as we leave.”