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| Brexit: I am going to see this through, says Theresa May | Brexit: I am going to see this through, says Theresa May |
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| Theresa May has dismissed speculation she could be ousted as prime minister over her Brexit agreement, saying: "I am going to see this through". | Theresa May has dismissed speculation she could be ousted as prime minister over her Brexit agreement, saying: "I am going to see this through". |
| Speaking in Downing Street, the prime minister said: "The course I have set out is the right one for our country and all our people." | Speaking in Downing Street, the prime minister said: "The course I have set out is the right one for our country and all our people." |
| She vowed to get the deal signed off in Brussels and put it to a vote of MPs. | She vowed to get the deal signed off in Brussels and put it to a vote of MPs. |
| It follows a string of ministerial resignations and talk of a no confidence vote from Tory MPs. | It follows a string of ministerial resignations and talk of a no confidence vote from Tory MPs. |
| Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey both quit earlier in protest at the withdrawal agreement, along with two junior ministers. | |
| And leading backbench Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg submitted a letter of no confidence in Mrs May to Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Tories' backbench 1922 Committee. | |
| A vote will be triggered if 48 Tory MPs write letters to Sir Graham. It is understood 48 letters have not yet been received. | |
| Mr Rees-Mogg told reporters that UK negotiating team had "given way on all the key points" adding: "The deal risks Brexit because it is not a proper Brexit." | |
| Mrs May spent nearly three hours fielding largely critical questions from MPs before holding a press conference in Downing Street to further answer her critics. | |
| She acknowledged the agreement had entailed "difficult and sometimes uncomfortable decisions". | |
| "I understand fully that there are some who are unhappy with those compromises but this deal delivers what people voted for and it is in the national interest," she said. | |
| "We can only secure it, if we unite behind the agreement reached in cabinet yesterday. | |
| "If we do not move forward with that agreement nobody can know for sure, the consequences that will follow. | |
| "It will be to take a path of deep and grave uncertainty when the British people just want us to get on with it. They are looking to the Conservative Party to deliver." | |
| Asked if she would carry on as prime minister if she won a no-confidence vote by a single vote, Mrs May said: "Leadership is about taking the right decisions, not the easy ones." | |
| She said her job was to "bring back a deal that delivers on the vote of the British people". | |
| She added: "I believe this is a deal which does deliver that, which is in the national interest and am I going to see this through? Yes." |