U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has told Conservative Party lawmakers that she will quit once the country has left the European Union - but she didn't set a date.
Conservative lawmaker James Cartlidge told reporters as he left the 1922 Committee of Conservative lawmakers that May told the gathering "she would not remain in post for the next phase of the negotiations."
Those will deal with Britain's future relationship with the EU.
Britain was due to leave the EU on March 29 but May has got a short delay after her divorce deal with the EU was rejected overwhelmingly by lawmakers on two occasions.
Meanwhile, lawmakers will get to vote on eight widely differing options for the U.K.'s departure from the European Union.
House of Commons Speaker John Bercow selected the motions on Wednesday from 16 proposals submitted by lawmakers.
The ones to be considered include calls to leave the EU without a withdrawal deal, to stay in the EU's customs union and single market, to put any EU divorce deal to a public referendum, and to cancel Brexit if the prospect of a no-deal Brexit gets close.
The "indicative votes" are intended to reveal if any kind of Brexit plan can command a majority in Parliament. Lawmakers have twice rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal with the bloc.
The government has promised to consider the outcome of the votes, but not to be bound by them.
MPs will vote on eight alternative plans for #Brexit:
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) March 27, 2019
?? No Deal
?? Common market 2.0
?? EFTA and EEA
?? Customs union
?? Labour’s alternative plan
?? Revoke Article 50
?? Referendum on deal
?? Malthouse Plan B
More detail: https://t.co/n6GQMw9RT3
The BBC posted these eight options:
No-deal Brexit - Leave the EU on 12 April without a deal - Tory MP John Baron
Common Market 2.0 - The UK joins the European Economic Area and negotiates a temporary customs union until alternative arrangements can be found - Tory MP Nick Boles
EFTA/EEA - Similar to Common Market 2.0 but rejects any kind of customs union with the EU and says the Irish backstop must be replaced with alternative arrangements - Tory MP George Eustice
Customs union - Calls for the UK to negotiate a permanent customs union with the EU after Brexit - Tory MP Ken Clarke
Labour's alternative plan - A customs union with the EU and "close alignment" with the single market - Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
Revoke Article 50 - Cancel Brexit if the UK gets within days of leaving without a deal. MPs would be asked to vote on a no-deal exit and if they rejected that, Article 50 would be revoked - SNP MP Joanna Cherry
Confirmatory public vote - Parliament cannot ratify or implement any agreement on the UK's withdrawal and future relationship "unless and until they have been approved by the people of the UK in a confirmatory public ballot" - Labour MP Margaret Beckett
Malthouse Plan B - The UK makes its budgetary contributions to the EU to the end of 2020 and agrees with the EU a period of two years in which UK goods have full access to the EU - Tory MP Marcus Fysh
(The Associated Press, BBC contributed to this report.)
