The factory where Theresa May made her big Brexit speech today received more than £400,000 in EU funding.

The Prime Minister made a last-ditch bid to urge Brexiteer Tories to back her deal during a speech at the Portmeirion pottery factory in Stoke-on-Trent.

The firm was given a grant of £429,000 from the European Commission to fund its Promote Life environmental improvements campaign in 2002.

Last week, the Mirror revealed a hospital where Theresa May launched her NHS Long-term plan was built using £50 million of EU financing.

Labour MP and Best for Britain champion Virendra Sharma said: "It’s laughable that the place that the Prime Minister made her desperate last ditch bid for support for her Brexit bill had received support from the EU.

“Stoke has received over £30 million of EU cash the government just ignore these facts as they run headlong towards a historic parliamentary defeat."

In her speech, the PM said she now believed it was “more likely” that the UK would stay in the bloc than crash out without a deal.

"There are some in Westminster who would wish to delay or even stop Brexit and who will use every device available to them to do so," May said to factory workers in leave-backing Stoke

Mrs May is set to present the new "assurances" formally to MPs in the Commons at 3.30pm, ahead of a crucial Brexit deal vote tomorrow night.

The PM urged MPs to consider the "consequences" of their actions on the faith of British people in democracy.

She repeated her warning that "catastrophic harm" will be inflicted to trust in politicians if they fail to implement the result of the referendum.

MPs are planning a fleet of different plots to take control of the Commons process and put forward their own Plan B.

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