Making a compromise deal with Labour could trigger a leadership election, and this has aroused the passions of rivals in the race to succeed Mrs May. Senior sources within the Conservative Party warned on Monday Mrs May will be “gone very quickly” if she moves towards Labour’s demands for a post-Brexit customs union with the EU. A senior minister told The Daily Telegraph: “People are waiting to see what this deal is, if it happens.

“That will be the decision point for a lot of MPs when it comes to deciding the Prime Minister’s future.”

Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, the senior minister added: “It’s going to be very difficult to support any deal Labour would support.

“It all comes down to the same old problem, that they want a full and permanent customs union, and we made a manifesto pledge to leave the customs union.

“It’s a trust problem for us.

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“Despite what everyone has said about the local election results being bad for Labour, I’m not convinced that Brexit is as much of an issue for Labour with their voters as it is for us.”

It comes as Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs, prepares to meet Mrs May to give her the choice of setting her own timetable for leaving office or having it set for her by her Party.

Meanwhile, Andrew Sharpe, chairman of the grassroots National Conservative Convention, will express that an Extraordinary General Meeting will be held on June 15 to allow its 800 members to hold an unprecedented confidence vote in Mrs May.

The result of the vote will not be binding but will increase pressure on Mrs May to quit if it goes against her.

Nigel Evans, joint executive secretary of the 1922 Committee, said: “If she comes out of those talks offering something which is Brexit in name only then she has got a real problem.”

Last month the 1922 executive narrowly voted against changing Conservative Party rules to allow for a confidence vote in the leader every six months, rather than every 12 months, as is currently the case.

Mr Evans alluded to this when he said: “if she tries any stalling we will discuss the rule change again.

“No-one expects her to be in Downing Street beyond June 30 and there is growing discontentment with her within the Party.”

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