Theresa May has rejected calls for her to resign and plans to deliver on a domestic agenda after Brexit

Theresa May has rejected calls for her to leave No 10 this summer, saying that she wants to carry on her domestic agenda and lead the second stage of Brexit talks after Britain’s formal divorce from the EU.

The prime minister was forced to promise that she would not lead the Tories into the next election when more than a third of the party’s MPs said they had lost confidence in her leadership in a vote in December. She has repeatedly resisted giving further substance to that concession, however, to the growing disappointment of her opponents and would-be successors.

Some Brexiteer MPs have even hinted that they would be more likely to drop their opposition to her EU divorce deal if she were to promise