Three MORE Tories tell Theresa May they could quit over Brexit in fresh Remainer plot to block No Deal – torpedoing PM's negotiations

Dominic Grieve, Philip Lee and Justine Greening have all told how they will abandon the Tories if the Government head towards leaving without an exit agreement in place on March 29.

Yesterday three Tories quit their party to join the Independent Group – with eight other ex-Labour rebels.

All of them want another referendum to try and overturn the result of the historic 2016 vote and stop Brexit.

They admitted they could be swayed to back the PM in a vote of no confidence if she promised a second referendum on her deal.

And Westminster was rife with rumours that more could jump ship and join them.

Last night one of the quitters, Heidi Allen, told ITV's Peston that a THIRD of the party are unhappy and hinted they could also leave.

And former Attorney General Dominic Grieve told Newsnight he had "complete sympathy and admiration" for the three splitters.

He told the BBC he would have to act "if I thought the Government was about to take us into a No Deal Brexit."

He added: "I would have to use every opportunity available to me.

"I would have to leave the party – yes."

And this morning Justine Greening told Radio 4: "I don't think I would be able to stay part of a party that was simply a Brexit party that had crashed us out of the European Union."

She said the Tories can't be successful in the long-run if they were "simply a party of Brexit".

Her Putney seat is thought to be particularly attractive to the Independent Group of MPs who have quit their parties this week.

Justice Minister Philip Lee said he could "understand" if colleagues joined the group.

On Channel 4 News he said: "If we no-deal at the end of March, it won't just be me, it'll be a stampede."

He later told The Sun: "I’m staying to fight for the party I joined in 1992.

"But if we can’t shake off the current trend of UKIP-lite, then who knows in future. I don’t rule anything out."

Next week Remainers are set to bring a fresh challenge to the PM – which would force her to rule out No Deal if she doesn't get a deal in place by the middle of March.

Remain Cabinet ministers have told Mrs May she must agree to delay Brexit if there's no EU deal in place – of they will rebel against her in the Commons.

The Sun revealed today how four of the PM’s top table confronted her during a No10 meeting on Monday to insist she must take No Deal off the table.

Amber Rudd, David Gauke, Greg Clark and David Mundell named a new pledge from Mrs May to extend Article 50 talks as their price not to side with backbench rebelsduring a new showdown with MPs in seven days time.

If the PM refuses, the senior ministers insisted they and 20 other members of the Government would press on with their vow to back Labour MP Yvette Cooper and Tory grandee Sir Oliver Letwin’s plan for Parliament to seize control of the Brexit process.

One Tory minister told The Sun: “The PM has a choice, and that was made clear to her.

“Either take no deal off the table by extending Article 50 or she will have to sack the lot of us, and still be defeated.”

Last night the PM met Jean Claude Juncker in Brussels and insisted that progress had been made in talks.

The pair will chat again within days.

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