May suggests she’ll fight on if Commons rejects Brexit deal

THERESA MAY has insisted that she will still have a job in two weeks’ time, as she told her MPS to “hold their nerve” and back her Brexit deal.

The Prime Minister suggested that she would not quit if her deal was voted down in the Commons next week, despite the prospect of a Tory rebellion.

She told This Morning on ITV: “At the end of the line it is, I think, about holding our nerve and getting this over the line so we can deliver on Brexit and people can have that better future.”

Asked if she would still have a job after the vote, Mrs May said: “I will still have a job in two weeks’ time. My job is making sure that we do what the public asked us to, we leave the EU but we do it in a way that is good for them.”

Pressed on whether she would resign if her Brexit deal was rejected next week, she added: “I’m focusing on, you know, getting that vote, and getting the vote over the line. This is not a, sort of ‘oh, well, it’s just any old vote’. Actually, this is about delivering for what people voted for when they voted in that referendum to leave the EU.”

Referring to calls for a new referendum, Mrs May said: “People are talking about a second vote when we haven’t even delivered on the first vote... People voted to leave and I think there’s a, sort of, democratic duty on us as politicians, having had that referendum, and having said it is your choice, to actually deliver on it.”

She said MPS should reflect on the deal and back it in the “national interest”. “We can be better off. That’s up to us,” she said. “It’s going to be different from being in the EU. It is a different relationship. But, that’s what people voted for.”