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MPs could cancel Brexit completely next week, top Tory Jeremy Hunt has claimed.

The Foreign Secretary said revoking Article 50 - the legal countdown to Brexit - is among a "limited list" of outcomes MPs will find in Parliament to the current crisis.

His bombshell comments came as more than 600,000 people signed a petition to revoke Article 50 in a single day.

Under EU law the UK must get the approval of all 27 fellow leaders to delay Brexit - something Theresa May is asking for today.

But European courts have ruled the UK can revoke the countdown to exit day on March 29 completely and unilaterally, without permission from Brussels.

Mr Hunt today said it was "highly unlikely" MPs would choose to revoke Article 50.

The prospect is supported by some but opposed by both the Labour and Tory front benches - meaning the chances of it passing through Parliament next week would be slim to nil.

However, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "If we are in the same situation this time next week then only a very limited list of things could happen.

"Parliament could vote to revoke Article 50, which is cancelling the Brexit process - I think that's highly unlikely.

"There could be an EU emergency summit to offer us an extension and we don't know what the length will be and it could have some very onerous conditions - they could say, for example, 'We'll give you an extension if you have a second referendum'.

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"Again, I think it's very unlikely Parliament would vote for that. And then we have no-deal as the legal default on Friday.

"So the choice that we have now is one of resolving this issue or extreme unpredictability."

Theresa May jets to Brussels this morning to request a delay to Brexit before putting her deal back to a vote by MPs on Tuesday.

EU leaders are expected to grant her request for a three-month delay to June 30 at a summit in the Belgian capital.

But it will be conditional on Mrs May getting her deal passed by Parliament next week - despite it failing by record numbers twice.

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With all eyes on what happens next, the PM last night decided to turn her fire on MPs, accusing them of holding up Brexit.

She told the public "I am on your side", prompting fury from those who accused her of feeding a far-right rhetoric.

Brexit Minister Kwasi Kwarteng today claimed: "We have a good shot at actually landing the deal next week."

But Lisa Nandy, a Labour MP who'd been preparing a compromise to back Mrs May's deal next week, said the PM's "dangerous and reckless" statement in Downing Street "will have cost her support".