Ministerial cars arrive at the cabinet meeting at Chequers today, but those who resign will have to make their own way home

Boris Johnson was “blaming everyone but himself” for the state of Brexit in talks with David Cameron last night before the cabinet meeting at Chequers today, The Times understands.

The foreign secretary met the former prime minister and discussed Theresa May’s Brexit blueprint. One account of the meeting suggested that both men had agreed that Mrs May’s plan was the “worst of all worlds” and that Mr Cameron thought it was time he took pride in being the “father of Brexit”.

But Mr Cameron has disowned that claim and rejected outright attempts to paint him as an enthusiastic Brexiteer. Allies of the former prime minister were apoplectic, saying that he had consistently advocated a Norway-style soft Brexit and regarded Mr Johnson’s approach as fantasy