Desperate May turns to LABOUR MPs to help force through her 'stinker' Brexit trade plan

Theresa May is today pleading for Labour MPs to help force her 'stinker' Brexit plan through Parliament in the wake of David Davis's dramatic resignation.

The Prime Minister has drafted Dominic Raab into Cabinet replace Mr Davis as she tries to quell as a massive backlash from Eurosceptics that threatens to sweep her out of Downing Street.

But the Tory wrath has been inflamed further after it emerged that Mrs May's chief of staff Gavin Barwell is briefing Opposition MPs in a bid to win them over to her 'third way' proposals for future trade with the EU. 

Brexiteers warned that the premier will not survive if she has to rely on 'socialist' votes to get the measures through the Commons - amid calls for Boris Johnson to take up cudgels by following Mr Davis out of the door.


In a devastating verdict on the plans, which Mrs May pushed through Cabinet on Friday night, Mr Davis complained that she had undermined him by ignoring his views on a 'significant number of occasions' and put the UK on track to be humbled by Brussels.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Davis said his 'conscience' would not allow him to continue as he did not 'believe' in the plan. He insisted he had been 'clear' at the Chequers showdown that he did not back the blueprint and the EU would just take advantage.

'They'll take what we offer already and then demand some more. That's what I fear,' he said. 

'We're giving too much away, too easily, and that to me is a very dangerous strategy.'

The appointment of Mr Raab, seen as a 'true believer' in Brexit, will calm nerves on the Tory benches somewhat. A Leave campaigner in the referendum, he has been promoted from housing minister.

But all eyes are now on Mr Johnson, who is said to have branded the blueprint a 't***' during the Cabinet showdown. He has so far remain ominously silent, amid contradictory claims over whether he is attending the Cobra emergency meeting on the Amesbury nerve agent poisonings. 

Allies of Mrs May fear a vote of confidence is now more likely to happen than not - with 48 letters to the ruling 1922 committee needed to trigger one. 

But she faces a torrid time when she makes a statement to the Commons on the Brexit plan later, and then addresses Tory backbench MPs this evening. 





MailOnline