May faces hardliner backlash despite deal

British Prime Minister Theresa May scored a key success in clinching a Brexit agreement with Brussels yesterday but faced an immediate backlash from hardliners at home for making compromises.

"It's not Brexit," Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party and a major driving force behind last year's Brexit referendum, told BBC radio.

"A deal in Brussels is good news for Mrs May as we can now move on to the next stage of humiliation," he said on Twitter.

Boxed in by rival pro-Brexit and pro-EU factions within her own Conservative party, May has been at risk of being toppled ever since a general election in June in which she lost her majority.

The Sun earlier this week even reported a plot to oust her before Christmas and install her Brexit Secretary David Davis as prime  minister.