UP TO 4,000 government staff are being told to QUIT their jobs to get Britain ready for a No Deal Brexit.

Thousands of staff in education, justice and welfare departments and others are being asked to take up new positions, it was revealed today.

3 Thousands of staff are being drafted in to plan for No Deal Brexit

None of them will be replaced either, leaving huge holes in their staffing, The Times reported.

The staff are expected to work on urgent No Deal planning for at least the next six months.

Jonathan Slater, permanent secretary at the education department, told staff yesterday that the priority was ensuring that "key services continue to operate".

"Please, if you feel able, put yourselves forward to help the civil service with the vital work that needs to be done now to minimise the consequences of a no-deal exit," he added.

3 Theresa May has refused to rule out No Deal - and says only voting for hers will take it off the table

Some roles will be filled by consultants, and the Department is also recruiting externally too, the paper reported.

A cross department group has reportedly been set up to manage the switch.

The news is a sign that ministers are woefully unprepared for leaving the EU without a deal on March 29, despite significantly ramping up the plans.

And it means that other priorities like prisons reform and Universal Credit are likely to get sidelined while staff deal with Brexit matters.

Hopes are fading fast that Theresa May can get her Brexit deal passed by MPs on Tuesday.

As it stands she's set to get a humiliating defeat that could be the worst in modern Parliamentary history.

Boris blasts Theresa May for treating Brexit as a 'scourge' and 'plague of boils' The ex-Foreign Secretary blasted the PM for her failure to "set out a vision for the country, a narrative about how Britain is going global". He said it would be a primr chance to show "why that is going to help people's life chances all over the country, how we're going to take advantages of the freedoms that Brexit will bring". But he lashed out at No10 and No11 in an interview with the Financial Times, saying the Brexit strategy was run by the "same people who'd run the Remain campaign". And he added: "I think that Brexit has been treated as a scourge, a plague of boils, murrain on our cattle." He also called for the UK's aid department to be totally shut down - and put in the Foreign Office instead.

"If ‘Global Britain’ is going to achieve its full and massive potential then we must bring back Dfid to the FCO," he said. "We can’t keep spending huge sums of British taxpayers’ money as though we were some independent Scandinavian NGO." Critics have long hit out at Britain's target to spend 0.7 per cent of GDP on aid.

3 Staff are set to be working on Brexit for at least six months

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But several cabinet ministers have warned against going for a No Deal Brexit.

This morning Amber Rudd refused to say whether she would quit if that happened, and other ministers like Greg Clark are known not to back it either and would likely walk out.

This week the PM was dealt two humiliating blows over Brexit - restricting tax powers if there's No Deal, and forcing her to come up with a plan B for Brexit in just three days if her deal is slapped down on Tuesday.

Theresa May humiliated over Brexit for the 2nd time in 24 hours

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