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Tory Brexiteers are plotting to demand Theresa May’s job as the price she must pay to get her EU deal through Parliament.

Jacob Rees-Mogg’s rebel European Research Group want her to quit as Prime Minister after local elections on May 2.

In return they will vote for her deal so she can hit her March 29 deadline for us to leave the EU.

A Tory leadership contest would take place over the summer with the ERG campaigning for their champion Boris Johnson.

And the new PM will be crowned at the Tory conference in Manchester in September.

Brexiteers think they can hold Mrs May to ransom because she cares more about getting Brexit on her terms than being PM.

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An insider told the Sunday People: “The PM believes in getting things done and there’s nothing bigger than delivering Brexit.

“If she can pull that off she’ll have her legacy. And she’ll feel her work is done.”

EU negotiators are adamant they will not reopen the withdrawal agreement which contains the controversial Irish ­backstop.

But they have indicated they can provide legally binding assurances that the measure will be temporary to appease Brexiteers.

As things stand, at least 20 hardcore ERG backbenchers will not back Mrs May with or without changes to the backstop.

But if they think they can get Boris for PM then they are expected to back down.

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With the ERG on board and 20 Labour rebels Mrs May is trying to bribe with cash for their constituencies, the PM can get this across the line.

And she will be home and dry if the DUP back her. Deputy leader Nigel Dodds said yesterday: “With necessary changes the PM will have our support.”

In a letter to all Tory MPs yesterday, Mrs May wrote: “History will judge us all. We stand now at a crucial moment.

“A failure to make the compromises necessary to take through Parliament a withdrawal agreement which delivers on the result of the referendum will let down the people who sent us to represent them.”

Mrs May will hold talks with EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker this week and Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay is to meet chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier tomorrow.