Theresa May had ten minutes shortly after midnight to pitch her Chequers proposals to the other EU leaders

A “camp” of prime ministers wants to give the UK a “fair Brexit”, Hungary’s nationalist prime minister said, as divisions emerged in public over Theresa May’s appeal for the European Union to “respond in kind” to the compromises in her Chequers white paper.

As European leaders met in Salzburg for a critical meeting that will determine the future of Mrs May’s Brexit plans, Viktor Orban said that he and a group of other leaders were “getting a majority” for a deal with the UK.

“The other camp would like to deliver evidence that to make that kind of decision is to be punished and that the British must suffer,” he said. “I don’t like that approach at all.”

Jean Paul Juncker, president of the European Commission, said the prime minister’s address last night was “polite, it was not aggressive” REUTERS

Other leaders took the unusual step