Theresa May is facing a backlash from leading Eurosceptic MPs after rowing back on plans to put a ‘no deal’ minister into the Cabinet at the 11th hour.

The Prime Minister is understood to have promised Brexiteers several months ago that a minister in charge of preparing for leaving the European Union without a trade deal would be given the right to attend Cabinet.

The plans, which were disclosed in Monday’s Daily Telegraph, were in place as late as Sunday and then were dropped on Monday as Mrs May’s plans to reshuffle her Cabinet unravelled.

Instead Suella Fernandez MP, the chairman of the influential European Reform Group of Tory MPs, was made an additional Government minister in the DExEU department.

Mrs May has also agreed that ministers in the Department for Exiting the EU will also be invited to brief the Cabinet on Brexit “implementation” plans, including preparations for leaving the EU with a trade deal or without a deal.

Last night Number 10 sources denied any deal had been offered, saying: “The focus is on implementation – and ministers [from the department] will attend Cabinet for the first time. They will be invited to come where relevant.”