BREXITEERS have told Theresa May they can be swayed to back her deal - but only if she quits within weeks.

Leave-backing MP Peter Bone said he was still a long way from getting behind the PM but he could be persuaded to back the deal if she stepped down.

2 Bye bye... Theresa May under pressure to say she will quit to get her deal passed on the third try Credit: AFP or licensors

The PM is set to try and push her deal through for the third time next week.

Mr Bone told the Daily Mail: "If the Prime Minister were to say that she would go, say, two months after the Withdrawal Agreement were passed then I and a lot of other people might suddenly be attracted.

"What is clear is that we need a completely different approach in the second part of the negotiations to the disaster we have had in the first."

And he said that if the DUP came on board he would be more mindful to back it too.

His comments come after former adviser to the PM, George Freeman, said also that Mrs May may have to go.

"This chaos can't continue," he said. "Something has to give.

"If, to get the votes for that, the PM has to promise that she will go after the Withdrawal Treaty is secure, to allow a new leader to reunite the country and oversee the next stage, she should."

Another MP told the Financial Times:"May needs to agree to go if the withdrawal agreement passes. Otherwise they will remove her."

But No10 insisted that Theresa May had not discussed quitting with her team.

Her spokesperson said: "The Prime Minister is absolutely determined to deliver on the will of the British people."

But the Brexiteer group the ERG are looking increasingly split by the ongoing impasse.

One MP added: "I'm not going to fold. If necessary I will spend the rest of my life fighting for this.

"We are being offered Brexit in name only."

Meanwhile, the DUP are said to be getting closer to supporting a deal.

Speaking in Washington yesterday the Northern Ireland party leader Arlene Foster said the party were "working very hard" and "we want to make sure we get there".

DUP insiders met with No.10 for fresh talks yesterday around the backstop - and are set to have further discussions in the coming days. Sources claimed new advice circulated to leading arch Brexiteers claimed the UK can leave the mechanism if it’s having a "socially destabilising effect on Northern Ireland". But the Daily Telegraph said the so-called Star Chamber of Eurosceptic Tory lawyers claims it doesn’t go far enough. In a fresh blow to the PM, the Star Chamber, which includes the DUP's deputy leader Nigel Dodds, produced a five page analysis which claims it is "erroneous" and "badly misconceived". Brexiteers are said to have given the Attorney General until Sunday to tweak his legal advice so they can vote for it before Wednesday's cut off deadline.

2 Yesterday MPs called for her to go as the price for sealing the deal Credit: PA:Press Association

What happens next? THIS WEEKEND: Talks with the DUP continue and the Attorney General is urged to consider his legal advice to try and get them on board.

NEXT WEEK: Theresa May could bring back her deal to the House of Commons for a third time.

WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH: Deadline for MPs to pass Mrs May's deal only to get a short extension.

THURSDAY 21 MARCH: EU council meeting. If the PM's deal passes she could ask them here for a short extension. If it fails, the EU could demand we face a long extension to sort out the mess.

MARCH 29: Day Britain is set to legally leave the EU unless we revoke Article 50, get a deal done or pass an extension.

JUNE 30: New Brexit day?

Last night MPs voted to tell Mrs May to delay our March 29 departure date and seek an extension of Article 50.

If she manages to secure her deal in the next few days she will go and ask them for a short delay to get all the laws sorted out.

But if she doesn't get her deal through on the third try in the coming days, she will be forced to seek an even longer one - which could last up to TWO years.

No10 will hope that the threat of a long delay could force some Brexiteers to fall into line.

Earlier this week MPs rejected her deal again, but also rejected leaving with No Deal on March 29 too.

However, it's still the legal default option if nothing else is in place by then.

It is still possible for EU leaders to block Mrs May's request for a delay when they meet in Brussels next week.

But most have signalled they will accept a relatively brief extension as long as Britain is still on track to leave with a deal.

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