Former Brexit Secretary Mr Davis told Christopher Hope’s Chopper’s Brexit Podcast new Prime Minister Boris Johnson would be batting off attempts to de-rail Brexit from Parliament left, right and centre in the seconds before the Halloween deadline. He said: “Europe is still hoping against hope that Brexit will not happen. “This is what Boris was alluding to, as long as they hold out the option Parliament might block no deal they can’t exit under no deal circumstances or that they might overturn the Government and they can’t do that either.

“For as long as that’s in place why should the other side give up anything?”

He added that it will not be the last three years since the Brexit referendum took place in June 2016 that counted in the process of the UK’s departure from the bloc, it would be the last three seconds.

He said: “It won’t be the last three years that matter it’ll be the last three weeks, three days… three hours, three minutes, three seconds…”

He added: “It’ll be a busy October.”

Mr Davis sensationally quit his role handling Brexit under former Prime Minister Theresa May’s government.

He clashed with Mrs May, who campaigned for the remain side, over her controversial Chequers agreement and threw in the towel along with Mr Johnson, who was then the Foreign Secretary.

Mr Johnson was replaced by Jeremy Hunt, who battled the now leader of the Tory Party to the very end in 16 nationwide hustings events, losing out on the top job when he admitted he would consider further delaying Brexit to attempt to strike a deal with the EU.

Mr Johnson, who after being in the role for five weeks is at the G7 summit in France this weekend, yesterday managed to get German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron to U-turn on their demand the withdrawal agreement will not be up for re-negotiation.

Both said the UK and EU could come up with a plan in the next 30 days.

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Mr Macron said the Brexit deal and Irish backstop were “not just technical constraints or legal quibbling” but are “genuine, indispensable guarantees” to preserve stability in Ireland and the integrity of the single market.

He said the EU had “always said that it was available to discuss, depending on the wishes of the UK, our future relationship”.

Mr Johnson stressed while he wants an agreement, the UK “must come out of the EU on October 31 – deal or no deal”.

He insisted alternatives to the backstop could be found as “where there’s a will, there’s a way”.

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He said there had “positive noises” about ways of addressing the issue.

Mr Johnson told reporters: “Mrs Merkel said if we can do this in two years then we can do this in 30 days and I admire that ‘can-do’ spirit that she seemed to have and I think she is right.

“I think that the technical solutions are readily available and they have been discussed at great length.

“You can have trusted-trader schemes, you can have electronic pre-clearing for goods moving across the border and I just want to repeat one crucial thing, under no circumstances will the UK be putting checks at the frontier.

“We don’t think it is necessary from the point of view of the EU to do that to protect the integrity of the single market, we think there are other ways of doing that. We have got I think adequate time to do it, let’s get on and do it.”

The G7 meeting began with a swipe at Mr Johnson from EU President Donald Tusk, who said Mr Johnson could go down in history as “Mr no deal”.

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