Dominic Raab today warns that Theresa May has allowed Britain to be “blackmailed and bullied” by Brussels and that she should toughen her stance on Brexit or face disaster.

In an interview with The Sunday Times the former Brexit secretary called on the prime minister to show greater “political will” and made a veiled pitch for her job, saying Britain would not look like it is — “frightened of its own shadow” — if he was running the negotiations.

He called on the prime minister to walk away from the talks rather than submit to the “predatory” behaviour of “dark forces” in Brussels. Raab spoke out as May faced new threats to her premiership:

● Seven leading Tories — Boris Johnson, Amber Rudd, Sajid Javid,