The prime minister and her lead negotiator Oliver Robbins have seven weeks to come up with a new customs compromise or else the chances of a no-deal, disorderly Brexit increase dramatically.

After Theresa May’s cabinet defeat yesterday there is not a crisis in the Brexit negotiations. Not quite yet.

Mr Robbins will be grilled as to what comes next during talks in Brussels tomorrow afternoon with Sabine Weyand, the EU’s deputy negotiator.

“No signals yet,” said one senior EU diplomat involved in the talks .

“Perhaps we will know more or have new signals by tomorrow afternoon. But we are really getting worried now.”

The EU side had expected that Mrs May’s “partnership” plan, with some further concessions, could become the basis for a fudge