Theresa May to contest confidence vote 'with everything I've got'

Embattled British Prime Minister resa May will face a vote of -confidence triggered by her own party lawmakers over her controversial Brexit deal, as she vowed to fight it out with "everything I have got".

May is set to face a vote of -confidence in her leership after required 48 MPs from her Conservative Party filed letters with influential 1922 Committee, which represents rank-and-file Conservative MPs in House of Commons.

"I will contest that vote with everything I have got," May said in a statement at Downing Street, warning that leership challenge will delay or even cancel Brexit.

"I stand rey to finish job," she said.

vote, triggered amid ongoing divisions over her Brexit deal, takes place in form of a secret ballot on Wednesday evening. May will need to convince a majority of MPs (158) to be able to win vote and n her leership cant be challenged for a year.

However, if she loses, party will have to elect a new leer who will n go on to become next British Prime Minister.

leership challenge comes as she was desperately trying to rescue her Brexit deal as she tried to convince European Union (EU) leers to offer some concessions to convince Britain's MPs to vote for it on Tuesday, a day after she postponed a crucial parliamentary vote scheduled for this week over Withdrawal Agreement struck with EU.

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She was due to travel to Dublin on Wednesday but will w remain in London to contest -confidence vote.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who held talks with British PM in Brussels on December 11, said EU would t "renegotiate" deal but re was room for "furr clarifications".

" deal that we have achieved is best deal possible, it is only deal possible," he reiterated.

Britain's MPs have to give go-ahe for May's deal if it is to come into effect when UK leaves EU on Brexit Day March 29, 2019. 

But deep divisions remain on all sides of House of Commons over so-called "backstop", a temporary customs arrangement designed to prevent need for checkpoints at Irish border if a long-term solution between UK and EU cant be agreed post-Brexit. 

Critics of arrangement are unhappy that under terms of legally binding Withdrawal Agreement, UK cant exit backstop without EU agreeing to it, which could effectively leave UK bound by EU customs laws beyond Brexit.

Downing Street h said a House of Commons vote on agreement will be held on deal before January 21, as that is deline enshrined in European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. That deline w looks more and more uncertain.

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