PM faces fresh hurdle over Brexit as Remainers threaten to take Government to court over single market

THERESA May’s plans for a smooth Brexit faced a fresh hurdle last night as opponents launched a second legal challenge to her bid to quit the EU.

Remainers are threatening to take the Government to court again — this time in a fight to keep Britain in the single market.

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The latest bid to derail the PM’s timetable comes after 11 Supreme Court judges retired to decide whether MPs and peers should get a vote before the exit process is started.

The latest claimants — one a Remainer and the other a Brexiter — will seek a judicial review in an attempt to give Parliament a vote on the terms of Britain’s departure.

They are following the same legal path as the challenge which resulted in last week’s historic four-day hearing.

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They will argue that the government has no mandate to leave the single market — giving Britain access to trade deals with the 27 other EU states — because it was not on the referendum ballot paper or the Tory manifesto at the last general election.

But the move triggered fury among Brexit MPs who accused the litigants of trying to stall the process and the will of 17.4 million people who voted to take Britain out of the EU on June 23.