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Getting rid of me won’t help Brexit: UK PM

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Update: 2018-11-18 20:08:51
Getting rid of me won’t help Brexit: UK PM UK Prime Minister Theresa May, photo BBC

Theresa May has told her critics that getting rid of her as PM would not make delivering Brexit any easier.

May defended last week's draft agreement for leaving the EU and said there was a "critical" week ahead.

She suggested agreeing more details of UK's future relationship with the EU, ahead of an expected summit next week, could satisfy the concerns of some of the Tory MPs opposed to her plans.

Jeremy Corbyn said Labour could get a better deal in time for Brexit.

There has been widespread criticism of the draft withdrawal agreement reached between the UK and the EU, which is set be signed off at a special summit next week.

There is also doubt over whether it can win the approval of the House of Commons, with opposition parties - including Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party - opposing it.

Some cabinet ministers have resigned and others are believed to be still trying to change its wording.

May told Sky News's Ridge on Sunday it had been a "tough week" but that she would not be distracted.

"Politics is a tough business and I've been in it for a long time," she said, adding that the next seven days "are going to be critical" for the future of the UK.

Asked whether Sir Graham Brady - chairman of the backbench 1922 committee - had received the 48 letters needed to trigger a confidence vote in her leadership, she replied: "As far as I know, no - it has not."

And in a warning to those pushing for a change of leader, she said: "It is not going to make the negotiations any easier and it won't change the parliamentary arithmetic."

Source: BBC

BDST: 2010 HRS, NOV 18, 2018
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