Labour party's Nandy says PM May's offer to quit after Brexit has made the road ahead difficult

The pledge by Prime Minister Theresa May to quit if her EU divorce deal gets through a parliamentary vote has made it harder for opposition lawmakers to back the deal, Labour lawmaker Lisa Nandy said on Friday. May promised on Wednesday to quit and let a new prime minister handle the second phase of Brexit talks if her Withdrawal Agreement is passed in a vote on Friday.

"We don't know who is going to be prime minister at that stage or what sort of commitments they will expect to be bound by, so she has made it far more difficult for Labour MPs (members of parliament) to support this deal to be perfectly honest," Labour's Nandy told Sky News. "(It is) very unlikely I think that you will see large numbers of people starting to move," she said. Asked if she would back May's deal herself she replied: "I think it's unlikely given what's happened in the last few days."