Theresa May says she will quit if her Brexit deal is passed: Lawmaker

Theresa May's announcement is the latest dramatic turn in the United Kingdom's three-year Brexit crisis.

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday she would quit if her twice-defeated EU divorce deal passes at the third attempt, making a last-ditch bid to persuade rebels in her Conservative party to back her, one of her lawmakers said.

May "will go if deal gets through," said the lawmaker, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Suggests she goes after a deal."

May was addressing a meeting of the 1922 Committee - in effect her parliamentary caucus. Another Conservative lawmaker said that, while May had not given a date, the impression was that she would go "reasonably soon".

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