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Back-bench Tory MPs call on May to name a date for her resignation

THERESA MAY will face a showdown meeting tomorrow evening with Tory MPs who are demanding that she names a date for her resignation.

Back-bench Conservatives in the influential 1922 Committee have urged her to say exactly when she will quit as Prime Minister in exchange for them to throw their support behind her twice-rejected Brexit deal.

Ms May – who has said she would leave by summer 2022 – cannot have another motion of no confidence tabled against her as Tory leader as she has a year’s immunity since surviving the first one in December.

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