Commons officials concerned about Theresa May’s health have reportedly drawn up contingency plans to whisk her out of the Commons if she collapses.

The Prime Minister has faced a punishing routine of meetings and travel both here and to Europe as she battled to get a Brexit deal across the line.

She has also put in a large number of hours in the Commons trying to win MPs over to backing her deal.

Concerns about the health of the 62-year-old Prime Minister, who has type 1 diabetes, have led officials to develop a ‘protocol’ in case she becomes ill at the Dispatch Box, the Sunday Times reported.

The signs of the toll that Brexit has been taking showed on March 12 as she lost her voice and struggled to speak as she put her deal to the Commons and lost by 149 votes.

The Prime Minister brought back memories of her 2017 Conservative Party Conference speech as she was reduced to a croak as she addressed MPs in the Commons.

After a red-eye trip to Strasbourg to meet Jean-Claude Juncker the previous night she was noticeably hoarse as she introduced the motion for her doomed second meaningful vote.

Theresa may leaving church with husband Philip today. She has faced a punishing diary in recent weeks with emergency trips to Brussels as well as a demanding serious of meetings

But she made light of it in the face of barracking and offers of throat sweets from Labour and other opposition MPs she joked: 'You may say that but you should hear Jean-Claude Juncker's voice after our talks'.

She subsequently struggled through Prime Minister’s Questions the following day.

But as MPs tabled a series of voted on delaying Brexit on the Thursday she delegated speeches to her ministers to give her a chance to recover.

Mrs May said in November that her blood sugar levels go up when stressed. She take daily insulin injections to manage the condition.

She told LBC radio: 'Well if you’re stressed if there’s a lot of adrenaline it will tend to go up but you manage that with the amount of insulin you’re putting in'.

Today her deputy David Lidington insisted he does not want to replace her as Prime Minister as he found himself at the centre of a Cabinet coup.

The Cabinet Office minister spoke out ahead of crunch talks between the PM and hardline Brexiteers including Boris Johnson at Chequers this afternoon, as ministers plotted to topple her.

As senior cabinet figures complained that the Prime Minister's judgement had reportedly gone 'haywire' in recent weeks Mr Lidington, her de-facto deputy Prime Minister, was named as a possible caretaker if she is forced out.

But Brexiteers who could not stomach the little-known Remainer being in charge at a crucial time for Brexit are plotting to get 2016 Leave mastermind and Environment Secretary Michael Gove installed instead.

Alarmed Brexiteers are aligning behind Environment Secretary Michael Gove (pictured today), a former leadership candidate and mastermind of the Leave campaign in 2016, as a caretaker leader

Mr Lidington told reporters in his Aylesbury constituency today: 'I don't think that I've any wish to take over from the PM (who) I think is doing a fantastic job.

'I tell you this: one thing that working closely with the Prime Minister does is cure you completely of any lingering shred of ambition to want to do that task.

'I have absolute admiration for the way she is going about it.'