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Brexit: May urged to quit to help deal pass

Theresa May could gain support for her Brexit deal if she promises to stand down as PM, senior Conservatives have told the BBC.

MPs in the party have said they might reluctantly back the agreement if they know she will not be in charge of the next stage of negotiations with the EU.

It comes as newspaper reports claim cabinet ministers are plotting a coup against her.

No 10 has dismissed reports that Mrs May could be persuaded to stand aside.

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The prime minister has come under growing pressure to quit following a week in which she was forced to ask the EU for an extension to Article 50, and criticised for blaming the delay to Brexit on MPs.

It remains unclear whether she will bring her withdrawal agreement back to the Commons for a third vote next week, after she wrote to MPs saying she would only do so if there was “sufficient support” for it.

‘Caretaker leader’
According to reports in some of the Sunday papers, cabinet ministers are planning to oust Mrs May as prime minister and replace her with a “caretaker leader” until a proper leadership contest is held later in the year.

But there were differing accounts of who the preferred candidate is, with the Brexiteer and Remain wings of the party said to favour different interim leaders.

Read: $1.3 trillion and 7,000 finance jobs leaving Britain because of Brexit

The Sunday Times reported that Mrs May’s defacto deputy, David Lidington, who voted Remain, was being lined up to replace her, while the Mail on Sunday said the Brexiteer Environment Secretary Michael Gove was the “consensus choice”.

But one senior backbencher told the BBC’s Iain Watson that even standing aside would not be enough for her deal to be voted through – having twice been defeated by large margins – and that Mrs May might as well “dig in”.

No 10 dismissed suggestions that Mrs May could be persuaded to stand aside, or that she would agree a “job share” arrangement where senior ministers would be given extra responsibilities.

The BBC’s political editor, Laura Kuenssberg said there was “serious manoeuvring” going on.

 

 

Source: BBC 

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