Tory MP Nigel Evans told TalkRADIO’s Julia Hartley-Brewer why the royal couple, who saw the arrival of their first child on Monday morning, would be well placed to carry through the Brexit project. He explained: “I think you should put Harry and Meghan in charge of Brexit. They delivered the royal baby on time and, maybe, they could now deliver Brexit and we could get on with our lives.”

Ms Hartley-Brewer promptly giggled in agreement as Mr Evans continued on a more serious note.

He said: “As you know, we’ve got the talks between the Labour Party and the Conservatives restarting today.

“And it seems to me as if we’ve got one group of Remain ministers talking to a group of Remain shadow ministers about what crumbs of Brexit they think that they’ll be able to throw at the 17.4 million and get away with.

“Well, they thought they’d get away at the local elections and they haven’t.

“The Labour Party thought they’d get away with it and they haven’t.

“The electorate can be really sophisticated when it wants to. It worked out how to send a signal to both the Labour Party and the Conservatives.

“The really odd thing for me is that at the last general election, both parties attracted 80 percent of those who voted that day and both parties stood on a manifesto of delivering Brexit, including being out of the customs union and the single market.

“And yet, both parties are now in a conversation whereby it has been termed that they’re taking on the people, whereby they want to offer something that the people didn’t vote for.”

Mr Evans made the comments in advance of a meeting of a 1922 Committee meeting this afternoon.

The gathering, which Mr Evans chairs, will seek to determine an exact departure date for Prime Minister Theresa May.

Tuesday’s meeting with Sir Graham Brady comes after the 1922 Committee requested “clarity” about the Prime Minister’s timetable for standing down and triggering a leadership contest.

Meanwhile, senior Tory activists will consider the question of Mrs May’s leadership at an emergency meeting of association chairmen next month.

A revolt against Mrs May could become more likely if talks with Labour result in a Brexit compromise which would be unacceptable to Tory Eurosceptics.

Government ministers and their Labour counterparts will resume talks in Westminster aimed at breaking the deadlock.

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said both sides need to be willing to compromise.

Mr Hunt said that after both main parties lost ground in the local elections in England, it was a “crucial week” coming up for the Brexit negotiations.

However, he said that he did not believe a permanent customs union with the EU – supported by Labour – offered a “sustainable, long-term solution” to the current impasse.

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