Theresa May’s cabinet is set to ramp up planning for no deal today as one her leading opponents suggested she is safe in her post.

The prime minister is asking her cabinet to vote on three options for how the country prepares for Brexit in a move that is likely to see a ramping up of no-deal planning. Today’s cabinet meeting overran as ministers queued up to speak.

Details of the approaches are so sensitive that ministers were only allowed to study a paper setting them out inside No 10 before today’s meeting, according to one.

The Times understands that senior government figures acknowledge that the cabinet is likely to back the option for no-deal preparations to be stepped up and centralised across Whitehall. It