Theresa May pledged to leave her prime minister post if the parliament will approve and sign her Brexit plans. On Wednesday, Mar 27, she offered this deal in an effort to save Britain from further crisis.
The Prime Minister has run out of options and she is now in danger of losing control over the process of Britain's exit from the European Union. To counter this, she announced her plans to quit.
As per BBC News, May told the Tory MPs, "I am prepared to leave this job earlier than I intended in order to do what is right for our country and our party."
Her announcement came just hours before the House of Commons participated in a series of votes to come up with another plan. However, voting only divided the MPs further. The Members of the Parliament already rejected May's Brexit agreement plans twice and now her last offer to convince the majority is giving up her post for the deal to pass.
The Prime Minister added that she knows the Tory MPs do not want her in the next stage of the Brexit dialogues so she will not stand in the way.
"I know there is a desire for a new approach - and new leadership - in the second phase of the Brexit negotiations and I won't stand in the way of that but we need to get the deal through and deliver Brexit," she said during the conference with her Conservative MPs.
As South China Morning Post noted, some Members of the Parliament responded positively to May's offer. The report stated that some of those who initially voted against the deal hinted that they could now support the agreement if a new leader will be appointed to head the negotiations regarding the country's future with the EU.
The PM's promise to leave sooner was said to have increased the chances of her Brexit deal passing prior to the new set deadline of April 12. It is expected that the agreement will be brought back to the parliament for the third voting on Friday.
However, Sky News reported that the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) remained firm with its decision not to vote for the deal. The group made it known that they are still against the agreement despite May's pledge to quit.
Arlene Foster, leader of DUP leader told the news outlet that it is impossible for her party to support May's Brexit plan because they think it "poses a threat to the integrity of the UK."
"We're in a situation where we cannot sign up to the Withdrawal Agreement," she said.
She explained that this is because there have not seen any crucial changes to the backstop which is referring to the custom plan to circumvent the development of intense border between Ireland and Northern Ireland in case no Brexit deal is reached.
"The backstop if operational has the potential to create an internal trade border within the United Kingdom and would cut us off from our main internal market, being Great Britain," the DUP pointed out in a statement.
Foster added, "It has been made clear that parliament is not in favor of no deal. But we can't be in favor of something that threatens the union as it comes first. We can't sign up to something that would damage the union."
The third voting on Friday will surely be more intense as some already expressed interest in Theresa May's offer to resign. On the other hand, this can widen the division in the parliament since it is clear that the DUP will never agree with the PM's Brexit plans.
