Theresa May is warned against Brexit stitch-up with Corbyn as pair set to agree customs fudge today

THERESA May was today warned against a Brexit stitch-up which would leave Britain tied to the EU for good.

The PM's future is on the line as she enters the endgame of talks with Jeremy Corbyn to find a Brexit compromise.

Mrs May and the Labour boss are aiming to come up with a deal which can finally make it through the House of Commons.

The pair are expected to agree on a temporary customs union expiring by the next election in 2022, to allow the next Government to decide on the future path of Brexit.

Today Jeremy Hunt warned Mrs May against a deal which ties Britain to Brussels permanently.

He told the BBC: "I think this is a time when we have to be willing to make compromises on all sides because the message of last week was that voters for both main parties are very, very angry about the fact that Brexit hasn't been delivered.

"I personally think that any kind of permanent customs union wouldn't work in the long run because our economy is too big, but let's see what the parties come up with."

And Brexiteer backbenchers said the compromise would be the last straw for Mrs May's leadership.

Nigel Evans blasted: "If she comes out of those talks offering something which is Brexit in name only then she has got a real problem."

Veteran Eurosceptic Bill Cash added: "The time has come for her to resign. She needs to be given a date – the sooner the better."

Sir Graham Brady, head of the powerful 1922 Committee of Tory MPs, will see the PM this evening and demand that she name her departure date.

Labour is also bitterly divided over the cross-party Brexit talks.

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Today Andrew Gwynne, a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, said the party's support for a second referendum had hurt Labour in the local elections.

He wrote in the Guardian: "It is clear from the reaction on the doorstep that the talk about another referendum was a difficult message to explain to many of our traditional voters."

But other Labour MPs have vowed to vote against any Brexit deal which doesn't include a so-called "people's vote".

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