Theresa May is under siege in Downing Street after her ministers turned on her and Andrea Leadsom resigned from the Cabinet.

The Prime Minister was accused of bunkering herself in with "the sofa against the door" after she refused to meet Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid who were expected to confront her over her “disastrous” new Brexit deal.

Ministers and backbenchers told her she had "run out of road" and spent the day urging her to quit before polls open in Thursday's European elections, in the hope it would limit the scale of the expected Tory defeat.

An eve of election poll put the party on just seven per cent, which would potentially deliver their worst ever result.

However, the Prime Minister was still clinging to power after a day in which Mrs May had faced three separate plots to oust her. The pressure on her increased dramatically with the resignation of Ms Leadsom, the Leader of the House.

Ms Leadsom, whose job is to announce Government business in the House of Commons, said she could not “fulfil my duty” by proposing a Brexit bill that “I fundamentally oppose”.