The Prime Minister champions this new pitch as a “bold offer” as she gears up for one last bid to win over MPs and salvage something concrete from her troubled premiership. But, according the Daily Telegraph, the new offering contains nothing new on customs arrangements and retains the controversial Northern Irish backstop. After deal talks with Labour collapsed last week, Mrs May is desperate for the support of Brexiteer Tory MPs who opposed her deal in the previous three votes.

She must also try to convince the Democratic Unionist Party, although DUP chief whip Jeffrey Donaldson has said his party will vote against the new offering.

He added: “The difficulty remains for us that the backstop is still incorporated into the legislation. As things stand our position remains unchanged.”

“After ministers were given an outline of the new proposal a Whitehall source said: “There is nothing new in this at all.

“It is simply a retread of old ideas.”

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Downing Street said the details of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill had not yet been finalised.

If Mrs May loses the vote in the first week of June, she is expected to announce her resignation plans immediately and call a leadership election to find her replacement.

Mrs May appears to be less than three weeks away from announcing her departure as her new Brexit deal is likely to fall flat.

Meanwhile, Boris Johnson is being given daily advice by Conservative election guru Sir Lynton Crosby, who has been credited with helping new Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to a “miracle” win at the weekend.

Other candidates are also ramping up their campaigns with high-profile speeches and policy announcements this week.

Polling analysis in shows that Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is on course to win more votes than all the pro-Remain parties combined in this week’s European elections.

The Brexit Party is polling at an average of 32 per cent, against the collective 26 per cent of the Lib Dems, Greens and Change UK, who all advocate a second referendum and Remain.

In a sign of the dramatic demise of the Conservative Party under Theresa May, just 13 per cent of over-70s said they would vote Conservative in a recent YouGov poll.

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