Donelan – who was only appointed as education secretary on Tuesday – also resigned this morning.
More than 50 ministers and parliamentary aides have resigned in the last two days.
The prime minister is expected to make a public resignation statement today.
The numbers of those resigning also include three ministers in the Department for Education on Wednesday - Will Quince, the children and families minister, closely followed by schools minister Robin Walker, and later on in the day by Alex Burghart, the skills minister.
Commenting on the resignations of almost all ministers from the DfE, Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said, ‘It is simply not credible to claim a government is still governing when the education department almost entirely empties itself of ministers in a little over 24 hours. At the rate of resignations, there is no prospect right now of an education department fit to oversee any of the challenges of the coming weeks.
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