Michel Barnier is caught out by a camera in the new documentary Brexit: Behind Closed Doors. The EU Chief Negotiator for Brexit asks whether he is being filmed, and is then assured by Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt. Mr Barnier is seen in deep conversation while stood in a circle, before pointing towards the camera and asking: “You’re not filming, are you?” Mr Verhofstadt explains: “Yes, he is but it’s not a problem.

“It won’t be shown straight away.”

Mr Barnier repeated: “You’re not filming?”

The behind scenes footage was taken during the two years of Brexit negotiations.

The narrator explains: “High level international diplomacy and negotiations like the Brexit divorce define the lives of millions.

You’re not filming, are you?

Michel Barnier

“They are carried out on our behalf as citizens, but take place mostly behind closed doors.

“We rarely get to see what really happens. Guy Verhofstadt and his team broke that rule and gave me, a Belgian filmmaker, access to their side of the dispute during the two whole years of the negotiations.”

On Wednesday, Mrs May refused to set a date for her departure from Number 10 despite increasing discontent over Brexit among the public and Conservative Party members.

The Prime Minister was urged to quit as Prime Minister, with Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns telling Mrs May she has “failed” to deliver on the demands on British people and should step aside.

Ms Jenkyns said: “Nobody could fault or doubt her commitment to her duty, but she has failed.

“She has failed to deliver on a promise, we lost 1,300 hard-working councillors and, sadly, the public no longer trust her to run the Brexit negotiations.

“Isn’t it time to step aside and let someone new lead our party, our party, and the negotiations?”

Mrs May hit back at the suggestion she was to blame for the Brexit delay: “Actually, this is not an issue about me and it’s not an issue about her.

“If it were an issue about me and how I vote, we would already have left the European Union.”

Theresa May has been given until 4pm on Wednesday by Conservative MPs to set out a resignation plan.

The Prime Minister was told she will have a plan forced on her if she doesn’t do it in the allotted time frame. Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 Committee, made the plans clear at a backbenchers meeting, according to the Daily Telegraph.

The warning has come after the British Government confirmed on Tuesday the UK will indeed take part in the European parliamentary elections. Mrs May had hoped to strike a deal with Labour to pass a divorce agreement in the Commons before May 23 and keep the UK from participating in the vote.

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