Backlash as ‘no deal’ Cabinet job is dropped

THERESA MAY is facing a backlash from leading Eurosceptic MPS after rowing back on plans to put a “no deal” minister into the Cabinet.

The Prime Minister is understood to have promised Brexiteers several months ago that a minister in charge of preparing for leaving the European Union without a trade deal would be given the right to attend Cabinet.

The plans, which were disclosed in The Daily Telegraph on Monday, were in place as late as Sunday but were dropped on Monday as Mrs May’s plans to reshuffle her Cabinet unravelled.

Steve Baker, the minister for Exiting the EU, was widely expected to be given the right to attend Cabinet. Brexiteer MPS were said to be “dumbfounded” by Mrs May’s decision. One minister said: “I feel sorry for Steve.”

A Brexit source said by failing to ap- point “no deal” minister the Government was “saying to the Europeans we are not serious” about walking away.