• Says there is a job to be done and she's continuing to do that job.
• Some pro-Brexit lawmakers have said that May should step down.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday she was getting on with the job of delivering Brexit when asked if she would be leading the next phase of talks with the European Union.
"I have always made clear that there is a job to be done and I am continuing to do that job," she told parliament.
Some pro-Brexit lawmakers have said that May should step down as a condition of winning their support for her twice-defeated Brexit deal.
May admitted on Monday she did not have the backing to pass her European Union withdrawal deal as some in her party called on her to quit and parliament plotted to wrest the Brexit process away from her government.
At one of the most important junctures for the country in at least a generation, British politics was at fever pitch and, nearly three years after the 2016 EU membership referendum, it was still unclear how, when or if Brexit will take place.
With May weakened, ministers lined up to insist she was still in charge and to deny any part in, or knowledge of, a reported plot to demand that she name a date to leave office.
Amid the chaos, it was unclear if or when May would bring the divorce deal she agreed with the EU back to parliament. The deal was defeated in parliament by 149 votes on March 12 and by 230 votes on Jan. 15.
“It is with great regret that I have had to conclude that as things stand there is still not sufficient support in the House (of Commons) to bring back the deal for a third meaningful vote,” May told members of parliament (MPs).
Last week, the EU agreed to delay Britain’s original March 29 departure date because of the deadlock in London. Now, it will leave the EU on May 22 if May’s deal is approved by parliament this week. If not, it will have until April 12 to outline its plans.