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By Tim Ross, Kitty Donaldson, and Robert Hutton

July 9, 2018 at 10:09 AM UTC

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July 9, 2018 at 10:54 AM UTC

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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May moved quickly to contain a crisis in her government after her chief Brexit negotiator quit, replacing him with a young euroskeptic and insisted she would press ahead with her vision for the divorce.