BREAKING: Theresa May says she will resign as prime minister if MPs back her Brexit deal
Theresa May confirms that she will stand down as prime minister once she has delivered Brexit.
The prime minister's decision to set out her resignation plans came after Conservative MPs indicated they would back her deal if she agreed to leave Downing Street. "I am prepared to leave this job earlier than I intended in order to secure a smooth and orderly Brexit," she told her MPs. Last December May told her party that she would not lead them into the next general election. However, she has previously resisted setting out the date of her departure, insisting that she still had an agenda beyond Brexit which she wanted to realise.
The former foreign secretary said at a Telegraph event on Tuesday that he needed"to see that the second phase of the negotiations will be different from the first," which was widely interpreted as a signal to urge the prime minister to set out her resignation date.
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