A BREXIT-backing Tory MP, who has campaigned for the Barnett Formula to be scrapped, and described feminists as “obnoxious bigots” is to replace David Davis as the Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting The EU, No 10 has announced.

Raab who was previously housing minister, replaces Davis, who resigned late last night saying he could not longer support the UK Government’s negotiating stance on Brexit.

Back in 2014, Raab tabled a motion calling for the Government to "review of the Barnett formula".

Speaking in the Commons at the time, he said: "Scotland wants greater powers to tax and spend – and as I've said, I'm sympathetic – it cannot expect the rest of the Union and taxpayers across the Union to keep subsidising them to the hilt on such an arbitrary basis without fuelling resentment in other parts of the UK.

"I note actually that is also the logic of the SNP submission to the Smith review."

Raab previously clashed with Theresa May back in 2011 after he wrote an article saying "men get a raw deal” and that “feminists are among the most obnoxious bigots." 

May, the then home secretary, rebuked the MP in the Commons, telling him: "Might I suggest that labelling feminists as obnoxious bigots is not the way forward."