A senior aide to David Davis has attacked Theresa May’s closest advisers for pursuing a “Hotel California Brexit”, accusing one of leaking details of her Brexit plan to “his BBC mates”.

Stewart Jackson, a former Conservative MP and special adviser to Mr Davis, accused senior officials in Downing Street of blocking his reappointment despite Dominic Raab, the new Brexit Secretary, asking him to stay in post.

Wading into a growing row between Number 10 and backbench Eurosceptics, Mr Jackson accused Oliver Robbins, a senior civil servant leading negotiations with Brussels, of blocking the Brexit White Paper for several months.

Taking to social media last night, Mr Jackson also accused Robbie Gibb, Mrs May’s head of communications, of “sounding off to his BBC mates about the ‘3rd way’ customs options”, suggesting that he had leaked details of the proposals before they were presented to Cabinet ministers.

It comes after his former boss, David Davis, quit as Brexit secretary late on Sunday evening in protest over the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal.

Mr Davis said that he had been repeatedly undermined in recent months, adding that he could no longer continue in the role as a “reluctant conscript”.