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Mr Davis could back an amendment that would force a commitment that there will be no customs border down the Irish Sea.

It is one of the four amendments that have been tabled by Eurosceptics on the Government’s main trade bill.

The amendments were tabled in a bid to block the Prime Minister’s Chequer’s compromise.

The four amendments tabled by Jacob Rees-Mogg and other leading Eurosceptics include demands for the UK to abandon its pledge to collect taxes on behalf of the EU unless it does the same.