The PM is travelling to Brussels for a summit - but top Eurocrats predict she won't be able to get a deal this week
THERESA May today faced down her Brexiteer ministers - warning them she can only get a deal with the EU if they stop bickering.
The PM spent nearly three hours laying out her strategy to the rest of the Cabinet after rumours ministers were prepared to quit.
And she served up bacon, sausage and egg sandwiches to the warring team - in a jokey reference to the pizza party eight ministers hosted last night.
Mrs May told the Cabinet: "I'm convinced that if we as a Government stand together and stand firm we can achieve this."
A No10 spokesman insisted no ministers threatened to resign in protest against the PM's Brexit plans.
But Mrs May is still fighting off a rebellion from her DUP allies - as they threaten to block her domestic agenda if she doesn't accept their demands on Brexit.
Tomorrow the PM will travel to Brussels where she will make the case for her Chequers plan in front of other EU leaders.
Today senior Eurocrats Michel Barnier and Donald Tusk both said a deal is unlikely to be struck this week and called on the UK side to break the deadlock.
Mr Barnier said: "We must find a solution to ensure that there is no hard border in any circumstance on the island of Ireland. We are not there yet.
"Several subjects remain open, including Ireland. We need more time to find this global agreement and achieve the decisive progress we need to finalise this negotiation on Britain's orderly withdrawal.
"We will take this time, calmly and seriously, to find this global agreement in the next weeks."
And Mr Tusk added: "Unfortunately, the report on the state of negotiations that I got from Michel Barnier today, as well as yesterday's debate in the House of Commons, give me no grounds for optimism before tomorrow's European Council summit on Brexit.
"As I see it, the only grounds for hope for a deal for now is the goodwill and determination on both sides. However, for a breakthrough to take place we need more than goodwill, we need new facts.
"Tomorrow I am going to ask Prime Minister May if she has concrete proposals on how to break the impasse. Only such proposals can determine if a breakthrough is possible."
Last night, a group of eight senior ministers met over spicy meat pizza to air their frustration about the PM.
The ministers who gathered in Andrea Leadsom's office included Michael Gove, Jeremy Hunt, Dominic Raab and Liz Truss.
They reportedly agreed they should continue backing Mrs May as she battles to fight off Brussels' attempts to carve off Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK.
Penny Mordaunt, the International Development Secretary who attended the meeting, said today: "No one is planning on resigning. We are all doing our jobs and we are trying to get the best deal for this country, and that's it."
BREXITEERS will never be forgiven for making "false promises" to the British people, John Major claimed tonight.
The former PM insisted the UK's vote to quit the EU was a "colossal misjudgement" - saying those who campaigned for it have "much to answer for".
And he blasted Boris Johnson for undermining Theresa May's efforts to secure a Brexit deal.
In a speech in London this evening, Sir John said: "We know the post-Brexit world will be very different from now.
"It cannot be otherwise, because no form of Brexit will remotely match up to the promises made by the Leave campaign in the referendum - they were vote-gathering fantasies, not serious politics.
"It will damage our national and personal wealth, and may seriously hamper our future security. It may even, over time, break up our United Kingdom. It will most definitely limit the prospects of our young.
"And - once this becomes clear - I believe those who promised what will never be delivered will have much to answer for. They persuaded a deceived population to vote to be weaker and poorer.
"That will never be forgotten - nor forgiven."
The former Tory leader is now campaigning for a second referendum on Brexit to overturn the result of the 2016 vote.
Labour MP Virendra Sharma, a backer of the pro-EU Best for Britain campaign, mocked the ministers for failing to launch a challenge to the PM.
He said: "After days of briefing about their plot we expected these Brexiteers to give the Prime Minister a pizza their mind. It seems like they folded quicker than a calzone."
And Tory backbenchers have denied they want to force Mrs May out of office.
Steve Baker, the Brexiteers' shop steward, admitted: “There really isn’t time for a long leadership contest. And there aren’t the Eurosceptic numbers to change Prime Minister.”
But Mrs May could face a tougher challenge from the DUP, which is propping up her majority in Parliament.
Nigel Dodds, the party's leader in Westminster, said that if she tries to put a border in the Irish Sea the DUP will say: "How can we continue implement your domestic agenda, your budgets and everything else?"
He added: "Under the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act there are a lot of things that we can not support in terms of the government’s domestic and financial and welfare agenda which does not trigger the possibility of Jeremy Corbyn coming into No10.”
This week European leaders warned that No Deal is closer than ever after talks between officials broke down on Sunday night.
But Mrs May's ministers have insisted that even if there isn't a Brexit deal this week, one could be struck at a special summit next month.
THERESA May must ramp up No Deal preparations or risk Brexit talks resulting in total chaos, ex-Tory leader William Hague warned today.
The respected peer called on the PM to start building lorry parks and drawing up customs forms so that Britain is ready for disruption at our borders.
Lord Hague also said Mrs May should consider ripping up the blueprint for Brexit negotiations - and consider signing up to the European Economic Area for the next three years.
He warned the Tories are at "breaking point" as MPs row over whether or not to back the PM as she heads to Brussels for talks with European leaders.
The former Foreign Secretary said: "It is now essential to turn up to full throttle the preparations for leaving without a deal.
"Yes, that sadly means everything from printing customs forms to building lorry parks in Kent.
"A No Deal Brexit is extremely undesirable, and might be prevented by Parliament, but since it could happen it has to be prepared for psychologically and politically, not just logistically."
He added that "fresh thinking" - which could include adopting an EEA solution to give the Government more time to negotiate a deal - could help Mrs May shore up her position.
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