Angry Tory MPs tell Theresa May: Go now!

Theresa May's 10-point plan sparked an angry backlash from her own MPs, with backbenchers said to be plotting a leadership coup with the blessing of Cabinet ministers.

Sources told the Express & Star that even MPs considered to be close allies of Mrs May are planning to oppose the deal, with their ire focused on the Prime Minister's pledge to offer Parliament votes on a customs union and a second referendum.

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Walsall North MP Eddie Hughes today led the calls for her to stand down, revealing that he had written to 1922 Committee chairman Sir Graham Brady calling for a change in the rules to permit a fresh leadership challenge.

Mrs May, who has yet to set a timetable for her departure, survived a challenge last year and under current rules is safe until December.

But her pleas for the House to "come together" behind her new deal fell on deaf ears as scores of her own MPs came out against it.

Mr Hughes described the new deal as "awful" and said "it was time for somebody new" to lead the country.

"We're now in a position where the Prime Minister is floating the idea of a second referendum," he said.

"I think this is appalling and I'll be voting against it.

"But more importantly, I think it's time that we handed over to a new Prime Minister and sought a new arrangement with Europe that allowed us to leave in a way that actually delivered on the referendum in the way that we voted for to leave the EU."

Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant said he would oppose the withdrawal agreement, despite "holding his nose" and backing it last time.

"It would not result in any form of Brexit by those who voted Leave almost three years ago," he said.

"The Prime Minister has already said she will resign and she needs to do this in the next few days. This country needs her successor in place before the summer parliamentary recess in late July."

Stone MP Sir Bill Cash, who has always opposed the withdrawal agreement and wants the Prime Minister to step down, was withering in his assessment of Mrs May's plan.

"The Prime Minister wants us to believe that legislation which can be changed by Remainers – and which we have not even seen – is going to deliver Brexit," he said.