Theresa May under pressure over Brexit position

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EU after Brexit and striking deals with the rest of the world.</p><p>It comes as she has faced criticism from Eurosceptic Tory MPs that she is heading for a "Brexit in name only".</p><p>Asked about her future as PM, Mrs May said she was "not a quitter".</p><p>During the prime minister's three-day visit to China, Downing Street said more than 拢9bn of business deals would be signed.</p><div id="bbccom_mpu_1_2_3" class="bbccom_slot mpu-ad" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="bbccom_advert"> <script type="text/javascript"> /**/ (function() { if (window.bbcdotcom && bbcdotcom.adverts && bbcdotcom.adverts.slotAsync) { bbcdotcom.adverts.slotAsync('mpu', [1,2,3]); } })(); /**/ </script> </div> </div><p>However, Mrs May has faced growing criticism from MPs, including many in her own party, who have called for her to be more specific about her priorities on UK's future trade arrangements with the EU.</p><ul class="story-body__unordered-list"> <li class="story-body__list-item"><a 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don't believe that those are the alternatives," she said.</p><p>"What the British people voted for is for us to take back control of our money, our borders and our laws and that's exactly what we are going to do.</p><p>"We also want to ensure that we can trade across borders."</p><p>She added: "What I favour is a deal, an arrangement for trading with the European Union which is going to be good for trade between the UK and the European Union and good for jobs in Britain."</p><figure class="media-landscape no-caption body-width"> <span class="image-and-copyright-container"> <div class="js-delayed-image-load" data-alt="Presentational grey line" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180202111221oe_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/10301/production/_98950366_presentational_grey_line464-nc.jpg" data-width="464" data-height="2"></div> </span> </figure><h2 class="story-body__crosshead">Analysis</h2><figure class="media-landscape has-caption full-width"> <span class="image-and-copyright-container"> <div class="js-delayed-image-load" data-alt="Theresa May and her husband Philip in Shanghai" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180202111221oe_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/888B/production/_99855943_f4588ac9-d066-44f1-a030-a421eda045be.jpg" data-width="976" data-height="549"></div> <span class="off-screen">Image copyright</span> <span class="story-image-copyright">Reuters</span> </span> <figcaption class="media-caption"> <span class="off-screen">Image caption</span> <span class="media-caption__text"> Theresa May and her husband Philip in Shanghai </span> </figcaption> </figure><p><strong>By Iain Watson, BBC political correspondent</strong></p><p>While Theresa May has been away - successfully signing trade deals - I have been assessing the battles she faces on the home front, within her own party. </p><p>What is most striking is that some who supported her have, at the very least, become wobblier. One ex-minister said he felt "badly let down". She has been accused of blocking, not delivering, radical change.</p><p>A former supporter questioned her lack of decisiveness: "She has more reviews than a film critic would produce in a lifetime."</p><p>A Remainer who despises Boris Johnson wondered if - to coin a phrase - the foreign secretary's "bad leadership would be better than no leadership". </p><p>Council candidates fear poor results in London's May elections and think this could be a trigger for the PM to go. </p><p>And a Conservative-supporting business leader felt - though he didn't advocate it - that her opponents "will pull the pin from the grenade". </p><p>Downing Street believes the feeding frenzy of speculation will abate when more progress is made on EU withdrawal. But they are aware of the challenges at home as well as abroad.</p><figure class="media-landscape no-caption body-width"> <span class="image-and-copyright-container"> <div class="js-delayed-image-load" data-alt="Presentational grey line" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180202111221oe_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/10301/production/_98950366_presentational_grey_line464-nc.jpg" data-width="464" data-height="2"></div> </span> </figure><p>The prime minister has come under pressure from Eurosceptics worried about potential concessions by the UK in the Brexit talks.</p><p>Last week, Chancellor Philip Hammond suggested Britain's relationship with the EU would change only "very modestly" after Brexit.</p><p>However, cabinet members - including Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson - have warned the UK will lose the main advantages of Brexit if it remains bound by trade rules of the single market and customs union.</p><p>They have called for the prime minister to be clearer about her own position.</p><h2 class="story-body__crosshead">'Job to be done'</h2><p>Mrs May has repeatedly said Brexit will mean leaving the single market and customs union. </p><p>She told the BBC her goal in upcoming talks with Europe was to strike a deal that "is going to be good for trade between the UK and EU and good for jobs in Britain".</p><figure class="media-with-caption"> <div class="player-with-placeholder"> <img class="media-placeholder player-with-placeholder__image narrative-video-placeholder" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180202111221im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/720x405/p05ww4rh.jpg"> <div class="player-with-placeholder__caption">Media playback is unsupported on your device</div> <div class="player-with-placeholder"> <div class="media-player-wrapper"> <figure class="js-media-player-unprocessed media-player" data-playable="{"settings":{"counterName":"news.politics.story.42915261.page","edition":"Domestic","pageType":"eav2","uniqueID":"42915261","ui":{"locale":{"lang":"en-gb"}},"externalEmbedUrl":"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/embed\/p05ww355\/42915261","insideIframe":false,"statsObject":{"clipPID":"p05ww353"},"playlistObject":{"title":"Theresa May: I am not a quitter","holdingImageURL":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/$recipe\/p05ww4rh.jpg","guidance":"","embedRights":"allowed","summary":"Theresa May: I am not a quitter","liveRewind":false,"simulcast":false,"items":[{"vpid":"p05ww355","live":false,"duration":42,"kind":"programme"}]}},"otherSettings":{"advertisingAllowed":true,"continuousPlayCfg":{"enabled":false},"isAutoplayOnForAudience":false}}"></figure> </div> </div> </div> <figcaption class="media-with-caption__caption"><span class="off-screen">Media caption</span>Theresa May: I am not a quitter</figcaption> </figure><p>She added: "It means a free trade agreement with the EU. We are now starting to negotiate that free trade agreement with the EU. </p><p>"We want that to enable trade to take place on as frictionless and tariff-free a basis as possible across our borders, but we also want to be signing trade deals in the rest of the world, like here in China."</p><p>Asked again about her own future as prime minister, Mrs May said "throughout my political career I've served my country and I've served my party".</p><p>"I'm not a quitter. 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