The BBC presenter ridiculed the state of British politics as he hit out at Theresa May for “failing” to deliver on Brexit. Following a two week break from BBC’s The Week, Mr Neil said: “To quote the F1 key on the Maybot, nothing has changed. We are still in the EU.” Mr Neil pointed out the fact there is still no Commons majority of Theresa May’s controversial Brexit deal and “no Commons majority for anything to do with Brexit”.

The Maybot lost her Government’s majority and has so far failed to deliver on Brexit

Andrew Neil

He added: “The Maybot lost her Government’s majority and has so far failed to deliver on Brexit, has presided over a Tory collapse in the polls and looks like leading her party into not one but two election Armageddons next month.

“But still, Tory Party grandees can’t muster the wherewithal to show her the door.

“As for Labour, I hear you ask, well, while we were away it continued its grand tour of anti-Semitic tropes and refined its position on a second referendum twice, every second day. So, no change there either.”

The BBC host continued to ridicule the Brexit delay, later in the show he said: “We have missed one Brexit deadline already and there is every chance we will miss the second.

“Indeed, bookies will give you good odds that we will put off at hat-trick of misses by the end of October.

“Delay seems to have become this country’s default position – to lay in the Maybot heading for exile in Maidenhead, delay in Jezza the red establishing a clear position on a second referendum, delay in the Lib Dems ever choosing a new leader, perhaps because no one knows who the new leader is.

“The Church of England even delayed St George’s Day – moving it from last Monday to this coming Monday because it clashed with Easter week.”

The comments come as Mrs May sets herself a new Brexit deadline of June 30 to ensure British MEPs elected next month never take up their seats, Whitehall sources revealed on Thursday.

Government insiders say the Prime Minister given up hope of cancelling UK participation in the European Parliament poll by securing Commons approval for her withdrawal deal within the next three weeks.

Instead, she is preparing for a determined push to force crucial withdrawal legislation through Parliament in time for the country to quit the EU by the end of June.

Her new timetable will mean British voters are set to elect a new troop of MEPs next month – likely to include figures from the new Brexit Party including Nigel Farage and former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe – who will have lost their jobs by the time the new European Parliament assembles on July 2.

One source said: “The focus now is on hitting the June 30 deadline so the MEPs don’t take up their seats.”

Many Tory MEPs fear the party will be hammered in the euro elections scheduled for May 22, with the Brexit Party tipped by many to top the poll.

Another source said while ministers regarded staging the elections as a “toxic pill”, there was “the equally if not more, toxic pill of actually sending them there to take their seats.”

The shocking revelation means the Government is unlikely to hit the May 22 deadline for approving her Brexit deal needed to cancel the UK taking part in European Parliamentary elections the following day.

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