THERESA May has told MPs she will step down to get her Brexit deal through parliament.

The Prime Minister is reported to have told Tory MPs in a meeting of the party’s 1922 committee

she would “not remain in post for the next phase of the negotiations",

Tory MP James Cartlidge told of her statement as he left the meeting in Westminster.

She is also reported to have said: “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.”

MPs are voting tonight on a series of possibilities to break the deadlock over Brexit and Mrs May is still hopeful she can win over a majority of MPs to pass her deal which has already been heavily defeated twice.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon reacted to the statement on twitter.

Ms Sturgeon said: “If Brexit ends up being forced through on the basis of a deal no one supports - indeed a deal so bad that the PM has to promise to resign to get it through - it will make an already bad project even worse.”